You don't know what you're talking about. There's no mystery-meat on that page. The only navigation are clearly labeled text links.
And just because your particular browser sucks at rendering the interactive graph doesn't make it a bad page. The whole point of the graphic is to illustrate browser support for HTML5 in a compelling way. And how better than to make that display actually use and encourage HTML5
FF is the weakest of the current browsers when it comes to javascript and canvas speeds. Safari and Chrome both handle that interactive graph quite well. IE8 fails miserably, which is great for showing why people need to update to 9 when it comes out. FF4 is supposed to improve things over 3.6, but proof of concepts like this one are exactly what are driving the improvements and competition between browsers.
Massive subsidies for corn farming (also in the form of biofuel kickbacks) combined with tariffs on imported sugar to protect certain agricultural sectors make corn syrup an incredibly inexpensive and profitable sweetening agent.
This is the big reason why most sodas in the US use corn syrup whereas foreign recipes usually rely on ordinary sugar.
In short, no politician wants to risk losing support in the midwest or the southeast. Advocating reform on either of these policies is political suicide in those regions.
Let's run the numbers... My wife and I have two iPhones on an AT&T family plan with unlimited data at $30/mo. Assuming we had the newer $25/mo 2GB plan it breaks down as such:
AT&T: $90/mo (for fairly limited minutes + 200 texts) + $25/ea/mo for data + taxes and fees = $160 Walmart: $45/mo + $25/mo second line + $80/mo (hypothetical max rate for 2GB) = $160
So we can get unlimited voice and text messaging for the same price we're now paying if we also had really high data usage. Consider that AT&T just dropped its usage plans to 200MB for the default because most people don't use 1-2GB/data a month. I'm a heavy user and I extremely rarely hit more than 1GB.
I think if Walmart can successfully shakeup the stagnant US mobile market, good for them! The only reason why Sprint hasn't been able to pull it off is because of falling marketshare and coverage.
Hell, two lines, unlimited voice, and paying extra for even 200MB of data would still be a hell of lot cheaper than what AT&T is offering now for a "family" iPhone plan.
When I traveled to Hong Kong and London w/ my unlocked iPhone I picked up prepaid SIMs for around $15 that were more than enough to cover voice and data while traveling, and were substantially less expensive than what I'm locked into at home in the US.
1) PC in living room.... if you can, see if there's a way to hide the big noisy PC. In my condo, I have a conveniently located closet exactly on the other side of the wall from my TV. Poking a hole through the drywall and feeding AV cabling and the IR sensor for the remote was trivial. No noise, no mess, all the convenience.
2) Instead of an AppleTV, take a look at a Mac Mini. Has HDMI out, is only twice as tall as the AppleTV, and is incredibly silent. I use this with Plex (forked from XBMC) for the TV in the bedroom. I believe it's also possible to run Plex on an AppleTV, but I could be wrong.
In my setup everything is networked and all my movies are stored on a local server, an old Mac mini in the closet with the PC. Both the MediaCenter PC and the Plesk Mini can access the shares (afp or smb).
Actually those whip antennas are only for FM, not AM. If yours is removable, try taking it off and you'll see that AM still works with no degradation to reception.
I believe the AM ferrite bar is built-in to most car stereos.
The problem isn't copper vs. fiber. The problem is that the large telcos who own the backbones and built the networks with government funding/subsidies were forced to open up the copper networks to other smaller players on a reseller basis. Now that fiber to the home is being rolled out, they are not obligated (until now) to grant access to the fiber networks.
The small companies don't own the physical wires and so by not letting them access the next generation infrastructure rollout, the monopolistic big companies can effectively force them out of the market.
The next downside is that Firefox has to waste time reinventing the wheel, and is a big reason why it's getting bloated. Apple and Microsoft have both spent a lot of time and money figuring out ways to offload things to hardware (especially graphics) through standardized APIs. The great thing about this is that if the abstraction layer improves, or if the underlying hardware improves (h.264 hardware decoding) the improvement is a net freebie for every program running on the system.
By going it alone, Mozilla loses out on the ability to capitalize on the OS vendor's work and has to reinvent all kinds of things best left to the window manager or lower layers. Granted, they're not the only ones doing this. I hate how Safari renders text on Windows.
UVB-76, unlike sports playbooks, is probably not crackable actually. The methodology you're describing is similar to one-time pads or code books. There are two ways to crack it:
Monitor enough messages to be able to do statistical analysis and decipher any patterns (not possible with true one-time pads)
Correlate monitored instructions with the resulting actions of the recipient
Get a copy or reverse engineer the codebook
Cracking sport playbook codes is a great example. You were able to reverse-engineer their basic "code book", as most plays in any particular sport are well understood across teams. You were able to monitor the coded instructions and correlate them against the carried out orders. You also had the benefit of statistical analysis. Two different calls with the same resulting play gives you the pattern.
You're right that it's very likely that UVB-76 is using a similar methodolgy to sports teams if it is broadcasting covert information. A codebook is amost certainly involved. However cracking the meaning of its messages is nearly impossible because
Russian/Soviet intelligence is very smart and almost certainly using a true one-time pad, making a crackable common pattern between messages unlikely
Extremely few transmissions (a handful spread over decades) means source material for statistical pattern analysis is very limited
There are roughly 6 billion potential recipients of the messages - who's actions are a result of the transmission?
Few clues as to what realm of information is being transmitted. "Spy Stuff" is a very vague term that encompasses literally every human behavior
If UVB-76 is transmitting covert data, they are certainly doing it in very sophisticated ways and the only way it will be cracked is if there is a human mistake or revelation.
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It might be time to look into running a virtual machine for that legacy tool. You also can get modern motherboards with serial ports, or even USB to serial port adapters.
For that matter, I was 16 at the time and don't remember hearing or seeing a single computer. I do remember wishing I had something better than Netscape on Win 3.11 w/ AOL dialup for surfing however.
along with some asshole illegal alien on his 4th DWI plowing into my car at a red light.
This system would not have stopped your example. Perhaps after the 2nd DWI (if not the first) he should have been deported? Wouldn't that be a much saner approach?
Letting people with multiple DUIs drive at all is an irresponsible answer.
A huge part of my job is to bridge between people who are experts in their domain, and know very little about technology other than "I need the technology to get my job done".
If your scientists are in that group, then it's time for them to HIRE SOMEONE who knows how to work with complex data in an abstract manner. Same reason why you buy Windows or download Linux instead of rolling your own kernels. You're smart people, do you do your own janitorial work as well? Learn to recognize when it is the time to get someone who is smart in their own field, so you can spend more time on what you are good at, namely the research and the analysis.
This is the reason why investment bankers hire programmers and mathematicians instead of simply doing it themselves.
Honestly if there's a flood that prevents you from getting into the building, then the datacenter will probably be down anyways. All those underground telecom switching stations and power stations don't hold up well in flood conditions.
Translation: I am not a DB guru, but I deal with massive amounts of complex data and need a DB guru, but I have no intent on hiring one.
Seriously, hire a DB wizard in the DB software of your choice for a couple of days. Have him setup the data and optimize it. You'll save yourself a lot of headaches, AND put yourself in a good position for future data maintenance. Imagine that your project gets a lot of attention in the future, and you suddenly get a lot of funding and the money to hire more people Or imagine that you'd like to provide or incorporate data with some outside sources or other researchers. If you're using something "standard" like a relational DB, it will be much easier to hire a DB wizard then trying to find a programmer who can piece together a lot of mismatched files and convoluted organization schemes.
This is what databases are designed to do. Just because you're not an expert at setting them up, and theres a performance hit to setting them up wrong, doesn't mean that they aren't still the right tool.
You know, my personal anecdotal evidence of homeschool kids would be a complete 180 degrees from yours (my brother was homeschooled until his "group" of homeschoolers started a small school - many stayed in homeschool instead). But don't let that stop you from accusing me of racism and having a twisted view on the issue.
Why? VOIP should absolutely have priority over SMTP. They're different types of applications needing different levels of connectivity. That's basic network management.
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You don't know what you're talking about. There's no mystery-meat on that page. The only navigation are clearly labeled text links.
And just because your particular browser sucks at rendering the interactive graph doesn't make it a bad page. The whole point of the graphic is to illustrate browser support for HTML5 in a compelling way. And how better than to make that display actually use and encourage HTML5
FF is the weakest of the current browsers when it comes to javascript and canvas speeds. Safari and Chrome both handle that interactive graph quite well. IE8 fails miserably, which is great for showing why people need to update to 9 when it comes out. FF4 is supposed to improve things over 3.6, but proof of concepts like this one are exactly what are driving the improvements and competition between browsers.
Massive subsidies for corn farming (also in the form of biofuel kickbacks) combined with tariffs on imported sugar to protect certain agricultural sectors make corn syrup an incredibly inexpensive and profitable sweetening agent.
This is the big reason why most sodas in the US use corn syrup whereas foreign recipes usually rely on ordinary sugar.
In short, no politician wants to risk losing support in the midwest or the southeast. Advocating reform on either of these policies is political suicide in those regions.
Let's run the numbers...
My wife and I have two iPhones on an AT&T family plan with unlimited data at $30/mo. Assuming we had the newer $25/mo 2GB plan it breaks down as such:
AT&T: $90/mo (for fairly limited minutes + 200 texts) + $25/ea/mo for data + taxes and fees = $160
Walmart: $45/mo + $25/mo second line + $80/mo (hypothetical max rate for 2GB) = $160
So we can get unlimited voice and text messaging for the same price we're now paying if we also had really high data usage. Consider that AT&T just dropped its usage plans to 200MB for the default because most people don't use 1-2GB/data a month. I'm a heavy user and I extremely rarely hit more than 1GB.
I think if Walmart can successfully shakeup the stagnant US mobile market, good for them! The only reason why Sprint hasn't been able to pull it off is because of falling marketshare and coverage.
Hell, two lines, unlimited voice, and paying extra for even 200MB of data would still be a hell of lot cheaper than what AT&T is offering now for a "family" iPhone plan.
When I traveled to Hong Kong and London w/ my unlocked iPhone I picked up prepaid SIMs for around $15 that were more than enough to cover voice and data while traveling, and were substantially less expensive than what I'm locked into at home in the US.
Wasn't private API calls from Office to Windows a big part of what got into trouble w/ anti-trust regulations?
I've actually done this two ways:
1) PC in living room.... if you can, see if there's a way to hide the big noisy PC. In my condo, I have a conveniently located closet exactly on the other side of the wall from my TV. Poking a hole through the drywall and feeding AV cabling and the IR sensor for the remote was trivial. No noise, no mess, all the convenience.
2) Instead of an AppleTV, take a look at a Mac Mini. Has HDMI out, is only twice as tall as the AppleTV, and is incredibly silent. I use this with Plex (forked from XBMC) for the TV in the bedroom. I believe it's also possible to run Plex on an AppleTV, but I could be wrong.
In my setup everything is networked and all my movies are stored on a local server, an old Mac mini in the closet with the PC. Both the MediaCenter PC and the Plesk Mini can access the shares (afp or smb).
Actually those whip antennas are only for FM, not AM. If yours is removable, try taking it off and you'll see that AM still works with no degradation to reception.
I believe the AM ferrite bar is built-in to most car stereos.
The problem isn't copper vs. fiber. The problem is that the large telcos who own the backbones and built the networks with government funding/subsidies were forced to open up the copper networks to other smaller players on a reseller basis. Now that fiber to the home is being rolled out, they are not obligated (until now) to grant access to the fiber networks.
The small companies don't own the physical wires and so by not letting them access the next generation infrastructure rollout, the monopolistic big companies can effectively force them out of the market.
The next downside is that Firefox has to waste time reinventing the wheel, and is a big reason why it's getting bloated. Apple and Microsoft have both spent a lot of time and money figuring out ways to offload things to hardware (especially graphics) through standardized APIs. The great thing about this is that if the abstraction layer improves, or if the underlying hardware improves (h.264 hardware decoding) the improvement is a net freebie for every program running on the system.
By going it alone, Mozilla loses out on the ability to capitalize on the OS vendor's work and has to reinvent all kinds of things best left to the window manager or lower layers. Granted, they're not the only ones doing this. I hate how Safari renders text on Windows.
UVB-76, unlike sports playbooks, is probably not crackable actually. The methodology you're describing is similar to one-time pads or code books. There are two ways to crack it:
Cracking sport playbook codes is a great example. You were able to reverse-engineer their basic "code book", as most plays in any particular sport are well understood across teams. You were able to monitor the coded instructions and correlate them against the carried out orders. You also had the benefit of statistical analysis. Two different calls with the same resulting play gives you the pattern.
You're right that it's very likely that UVB-76 is using a similar methodolgy to sports teams if it is broadcasting covert information. A codebook is amost certainly involved. However cracking the meaning of its messages is nearly impossible because
If UVB-76 is transmitting covert data, they are certainly doing it in very sophisticated ways and the only way it will be cracked is if there is a human mistake or revelation.
It might be time to look into running a virtual machine for that legacy tool. You also can get modern motherboards with serial ports, or even USB to serial port adapters.
For that matter, I was 16 at the time and don't remember hearing or seeing a single computer. I do remember wishing I had something better than Netscape on Win 3.11 w/ AOL dialup for surfing however.
If you are homeschooling, please find an outside tutor or other homeschooling parent to cover grammar.
That pretty clearly would be afoul of harassment laws.
Unfortunately, in a situation like this, the best "victory" you'd get is being released without charges.
Should be:
1 for my car,
1 for me.
2 for my car,
1, 2, for me.
3 for my car,
1, 2, 3, for me...(hic)
This system would not have stopped your example. Perhaps after the 2nd DWI (if not the first) he should have been deported? Wouldn't that be a much saner approach?
Letting people with multiple DUIs drive at all is an irresponsible answer.
A huge part of my job is to bridge between people who are experts in their domain, and know very little about technology other than "I need the technology to get my job done".
If your scientists are in that group, then it's time for them to HIRE SOMEONE who knows how to work with complex data in an abstract manner. Same reason why you buy Windows or download Linux instead of rolling your own kernels. You're smart people, do you do your own janitorial work as well? Learn to recognize when it is the time to get someone who is smart in their own field, so you can spend more time on what you are good at, namely the research and the analysis.
This is the reason why investment bankers hire programmers and mathematicians instead of simply doing it themselves.
Honestly if there's a flood that prevents you from getting into the building, then the datacenter will probably be down anyways. All those underground telecom switching stations and power stations don't hold up well in flood conditions.
Translation: I am not a DB guru, but I deal with massive amounts of complex data and need a DB guru, but I have no intent on hiring one.
Seriously, hire a DB wizard in the DB software of your choice for a couple of days. Have him setup the data and optimize it. You'll save yourself a lot of headaches, AND put yourself in a good position for future data maintenance. Imagine that your project gets a lot of attention in the future, and you suddenly get a lot of funding and the money to hire more people Or imagine that you'd like to provide or incorporate data with some outside sources or other researchers. If you're using something "standard" like a relational DB, it will be much easier to hire a DB wizard then trying to find a programmer who can piece together a lot of mismatched files and convoluted organization schemes.
This is what databases are designed to do. Just because you're not an expert at setting them up, and theres a performance hit to setting them up wrong, doesn't mean that they aren't still the right tool.
You know, that's exactly the kind of thing used to deny blacks the right to vote after the Civil War.
You know, my personal anecdotal evidence of homeschool kids would be a complete 180 degrees from yours (my brother was homeschooled until his "group" of homeschoolers started a small school - many stayed in homeschool instead). But don't let that stop you from accusing me of racism and having a twisted view on the issue.
Don Draper doesn't carry a PPK. But then again, that might get scotch or bourbon.
Those of us not running on Windows systems find that going more than a year between wipe/rebuild is not only possible, but preferable!
Why? VOIP should absolutely have priority over SMTP. They're different types of applications needing different levels of connectivity. That's basic network management.