A POTS home requires a phone that needs no on-premises equipment requiring a source of power. Also, POTS is required by law to provide 911 service even if the homeowner isn't paying for any phone service.
Even though I have VOIP (comcast), I have a corded (no batteries needed) POTS phone in case there is an emergency, I can disconnect my VOIP line from the house, and plug in the 20yr old $10 'walmart special' into the wall and call 911.
Sure, a cell is a backup for VOIP, but they both require power to work.
btw, I've never seen a commercial for POTS where they say "Can you hear me now? Good." POTS just works.
there is nothing in the biology that makes kenyans faster runners than other countries
Actually, there is some truth to why Kenyan's are faster than other countries. It is physiology related to how the African body compares to that of the caucasian body. There was a study back in 2010, that looked into this. Note that since 1968, the world record holders in the 100m dash have all been of African descent.
The conclusion drawn by the study was that humans of African (vs Caucasian or Asian) descent have proportionally longer legs compared to their torso, so this gives them a higher center of mass and allows them to run faster, even faster than someone that is taller, but has shorter legs.
Compare this with a swimmer. The ideal swimmer's body is one with proportionally shorter legs and a longer torso since it is the arms that provide the majority of propulsion. This is why you see humans of Caucasian descent have success in swimming.
In my town they just installed red light cameras, the ones that take your picture if you run a red light. Did this reduce the number of people running red lights?
No.
It increased the number of people slamming on their brakes at a yellow and getting rear ended for fear of getting a ticket.
I don't recall that baking a loaf of will get someone out of immediate danger given that baking a loaf of bread takes quite a few hours. Most of that is you standing around waiting for it to either a. rise of b. bake in the oven. If you are waiting for either, you are most likely NOT in danger and are probably sitting on your couch watching TV or doing something else that is not as important as changing a flat tire on the side of the road.
This is so true. I can't count the number of friends that I have that have no idea how to change a flat, check oil levels, check tire pressure or even add windshield washer fluid, or even change a burned out tail-light bulb."
Their response is always, "I'll call AAA, the tires don't look flat, that's what the oil changes are for..."
Film projectors that "stuttered" Paper printers that jammed, ran out of ink etc... Laptops that get dropped, crash etc..
Nothing like putting something even more complex into a teacher's classroom for them to troubleshoot.
Is 3D printing really going to help kids do math and read better? I don't recall PrintShop running on an Apple IIe making me a better reader, though I did crank out some banners...
Where would you put this set of battery cells? I'm guessing it's not going to be something the size of a car battery... probably won't be able to store it in the basement in case it floods or the attic due to weight. So do German's have a extra space in their garage for something that may take up the floor space of a water heater or furnace?
I keep a very clean and organized garage and I'd have trouble storing another lawn mower or installing another water heater/washer/clothesdryer.
I get the model where you go into BestBuy, look at the TV, listen to the stereo and then purchase online.
But what does browsing for the book on the shelves get you over searching Amazon.com? You still get the same 'about the author' and plot taglines on the back...
Maybe there's some nostalgia that people enjoy walking through the stacks and prefer to read via eReader. For those people, the bookstore will die anyhow because no purchase will ever be made via the bookstore.
These bookstores need differentiate themselves from eReader providers just like movie theaters differentiate themselves from watching at home and Netflix. Movie theaters provide a service you don't have at home (a 100ft screen and a huge wattage sound system, and stadium seating).
Bookstores need something as well, book clubs (how do you keep people from joining the club that purchased the book via amazon), social gatherings, something...
All of these businesses died because the physical location couldn't differentiate itself from the delivered direct to home version:
He makes a comment about how the stickers are there on the back screws to discourage people opening it up and then he goes on to say you can replace the HD with any standard drive.
Seems they thought of what would happen if people tried to sell their PS4 on the used market. It would be easy/easier for the buyer to tell if the unit had been opened up while still allowing for people to upgrade their systems.
It's not like they dropped some security torx screws in this or other odd screws like others do (Apple).
I used to do tech IPOs. My money's in broad S&P 500 low cost index funds now.
(yes, I made lots of money from the tech IPOs, and the other IPOs)
Translation from Douche to English:
I made piles and piles of cash during the dot-com bubble. Enough to afford a Tesla and a $1.5m 1500sqft home in Cupertino. However, now that I have all this money, I can afford to diversify. If I didn't have all this IPO cash, then I'd never have the money necessary to send my kids to $20k/yr kindergarten, Challenger Elementary School and then either St. Francis or Bellermine High Schools.
I'm really just writing this to flaunt about how lucky I was to have invested during the dot-com bubble and now I'm telling you to follow my lead, however, you can't since the dot-com bubble is over, so you'll have to get used to taking low digit yr/yr gains of the broader stock market.
They'll learn when the 20-somethings get a poor review, smaller bonuses, passed over on promotions because their superiors are 30, 40, 50 and 60 somethings...
I wonder how many of them would do this at a fancy dinner with their significant other... It's a good way to end up sleeping on the couch...
I wonder if these states adopt Tesla's supercharger stations then will Tesla be able to charge $$$ or get royalties from licensing the technology etc...
If so then that could lead them down the path towards being a monopoly, since they'd own all the supercharging stations...
So when you're driving today you're in a state of being aware of the situation and are engaged with the surroundings.
If you're letting the car drive, I highly doubt you're paying that much attention. Why wouldn't I let the car drive and I read, do email, surf the web or turn around and talk to the passengers in the rear seats.
In the event where you need to take an emergency action, it's much easy in the first case to go to heightened state than in the second one. Atleast in the first one you aren't completely surprised by the events you're facing before you.
Think of the case of a gravel truck that has a loose load. If I know there's a truck in front of me, I'm not 100% surprised if some gravel comes out, whereby if i'm reading/emailing and I'm forced to take over to avoid gravel, it's more of a surprise and I'm forced to figure quite a bit more out about the situation before I can act. One could also panic because of the amount of elevated emotion or adrenaline dump that would be taking place since you'd go from "reading iPad" to "dodging gravel".
I've got some friends who work for the Fed and they loved the shutdown because they a) didn't have to go to work, b) weren't using up vacation days and c) were guaranteed backpay for the days the gov't was shutdown.
It's never really worked. The main downtown area, Castro Street, service is abysmal. If I can get an IP address, page load times are terrible. On the other hand, turn off the wireless on my phone and go with 4G and surfing is nice and snappy.
This was a PR stunt by Google, they were never serious about this. Or the old addage, "you get what you pay for". Given all you needed to access it was a google account, of course they're going to do the bare minimum. Conversely, with Vz/ATT, you're paying for service.
Is it miserable to the researchers? Whether they got $9400 or $500, surely they don't mind the cash. If you want MSFT to pay you $100,000 to find bugs, then apply for a QA position at MSFT and negotiate a $100k salary.
If I had the skills of a security researcher, I'd look at this as a way to make a few easy bucks.
It's probably much more profitable for IBM to license the technology to Google/Yahoo/MSFT/whoever than it would be for IBM to build search infrastructure.
Seriously if I am having my Io cached *before* it is on oxide, I damn sure want to make sure it is redundant. This is the worst of all worlds frankly.
Maybe you should read up on the specs for these cache. The drives do not acknowledge the writes to the OS until the write has been committed to the persistent and non-volatile storage.
I had one of the laptop versions for about a year and a half now, and it's definitely an improvement over a traditional drive and considerably cheaper per GB than an SSD.
I'm not sure why the majority of the population wouldn't opt for these as they still give you decent capacity and speed over dedicated HD or SSD drives.
Sure they're not as good as a dedicated setup with a SSD and a HD, but then again, the average user can still install everything on their C: drive without making any changes from the default installation.
When the Prius came out all the local FD's went to training on how to safely put out a fire in them and more importantly how to extract a passenger in the event of a crash.
There was quite a bit of concern around using the jaws of life and cutting into a live wire.
And so the FD's will get more training on Tesla's as well.
You are five times more likely to be killed by a car than you are to get STUNG by one of these things, assuming you are in China.
Only five times? As someone that just got back from Beijing, I'm surprised I wasn't killed in a traffic accident. Crossing the street is taking your life in your own hands and a taxi cab will turn any atheist into a devout believer.
There's that old saying about there are no atheists in fox holes... well, hop in a Beijing cab and you too will pray for a safe passage. And yes these are the official taxis not the unlicensed ones.
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A POTS home requires a phone that needs no on-premises equipment requiring a source of power. Also, POTS is required by law to provide 911 service even if the homeowner isn't paying for any phone service.
Even though I have VOIP (comcast), I have a corded (no batteries needed) POTS phone in case there is an emergency, I can disconnect my VOIP line from the house, and plug in the 20yr old $10 'walmart special' into the wall and call 911.
Sure, a cell is a backup for VOIP, but they both require power to work.
btw, I've never seen a commercial for POTS where they say "Can you hear me now? Good." POTS just works.
How a black bag operation works.
there is nothing in the biology that makes kenyans faster runners than other countries
Actually, there is some truth to why Kenyan's are faster than other countries. It is physiology related to how the African body compares to that of the caucasian body. There was a study back in 2010, that looked into this. Note that since 1968, the world record holders in the 100m dash have all been of African descent.
The conclusion drawn by the study was that humans of African (vs Caucasian or Asian) descent have proportionally longer legs compared to their torso, so this gives them a higher center of mass and allows them to run faster, even faster than someone that is taller, but has shorter legs.
Compare this with a swimmer. The ideal swimmer's body is one with proportionally shorter legs and a longer torso since it is the arms that provide the majority of propulsion. This is why you see humans of Caucasian descent have success in swimming.
In my town they just installed red light cameras, the ones that take your picture if you run a red light. Did this reduce the number of people running red lights?
No.
It increased the number of people slamming on their brakes at a yellow and getting rear ended for fear of getting a ticket.
I don't recall that baking a loaf of will get someone out of immediate danger given that baking a loaf of bread takes quite a few hours. Most of that is you standing around waiting for it to either a. rise of b. bake in the oven. If you are waiting for either, you are most likely NOT in danger and are probably sitting on your couch watching TV or doing something else that is not as important as changing a flat tire on the side of the road.
and yes I can bake a loaf of bread.
Mod parent up!!!!
This is so true. I can't count the number of friends that I have that have no idea how to change a flat, check oil levels, check tire pressure or even add windshield washer fluid, or even change a burned out tail-light bulb."
Their response is always, "I'll call AAA, the tires don't look flat, that's what the oil changes are for..."
Film projectors that "stuttered"
Paper printers that jammed, ran out of ink etc...
Laptops that get dropped, crash etc..
Nothing like putting something even more complex into a teacher's classroom for them to troubleshoot.
Is 3D printing really going to help kids do math and read better? I don't recall PrintShop running on an Apple IIe making me a better reader, though I did crank out some banners...
Where would you put this set of battery cells? I'm guessing it's not going to be something the size of a car battery... probably won't be able to store it in the basement in case it floods or the attic due to weight. So do German's have a extra space in their garage for something that may take up the floor space of a water heater or furnace?
I keep a very clean and organized garage and I'd have trouble storing another lawn mower or installing another water heater/washer/clothesdryer.
I get the model where you go into BestBuy, look at the TV, listen to the stereo and then purchase online.
But what does browsing for the book on the shelves get you over searching Amazon.com? You still get the same 'about the author' and plot taglines on the back...
Maybe there's some nostalgia that people enjoy walking through the stacks and prefer to read via eReader. For those people, the bookstore will die anyhow because no purchase will ever be made via the bookstore.
These bookstores need differentiate themselves from eReader providers just like movie theaters differentiate themselves from watching at home and Netflix. Movie theaters provide a service you don't have at home (a 100ft screen and a huge wattage sound system, and stadium seating).
Bookstores need something as well, book clubs (how do you keep people from joining the club that purchased the book via amazon), social gatherings, something...
All of these businesses died because the physical location couldn't differentiate itself from the delivered direct to home version:
*Arcades
*Video Rental shops
*Computer stores (CompUSA etc..)
*Bookstores
He makes a comment about how the stickers are there on the back screws to discourage people opening it up and then he goes on to say you can replace the HD with any standard drive.
Seems they thought of what would happen if people tried to sell their PS4 on the used market. It would be easy/easier for the buyer to tell if the unit had been opened up while still allowing for people to upgrade their systems.
It's not like they dropped some security torx screws in this or other odd screws like others do (Apple).
Is it skilled in the art at the time of filing or at the time that the patent is granted by the USPO which can be many years later?
I have a few patents and one took 7yrs to get through the USPO...
Hindsight is 20/20...
Let me translate this for you:
I used to do tech IPOs. My money's in broad S&P 500 low cost index funds now.
(yes, I made lots of money from the tech IPOs, and the other IPOs)
Translation from Douche to English:
I made piles and piles of cash during the dot-com bubble. Enough to afford a Tesla and a $1.5m 1500sqft home in Cupertino. However, now that I have all this money, I can afford to diversify. If I didn't have all this IPO cash, then I'd never have the money necessary to send my kids to $20k/yr kindergarten, Challenger Elementary School and then either St. Francis or Bellermine High Schools.
I'm really just writing this to flaunt about how lucky I was to have invested during the dot-com bubble and now I'm telling you to follow my lead, however, you can't since the dot-com bubble is over, so you'll have to get used to taking low digit yr/yr gains of the broader stock market.
They'll learn when the 20-somethings get a poor review, smaller bonuses, passed over on promotions because their superiors are 30, 40, 50 and 60 somethings...
I wonder how many of them would do this at a fancy dinner with their significant other... It's a good way to end up sleeping on the couch...
I wonder if these states adopt Tesla's supercharger stations then will Tesla be able to charge $$$ or get royalties from licensing the technology etc...
If so then that could lead them down the path towards being a monopoly, since they'd own all the supercharging stations...
So when you're driving today you're in a state of being aware of the situation and are engaged with the surroundings.
If you're letting the car drive, I highly doubt you're paying that much attention. Why wouldn't I let the car drive and I read, do email, surf the web or turn around and talk to the passengers in the rear seats.
In the event where you need to take an emergency action, it's much easy in the first case to go to heightened state than in the second one. Atleast in the first one you aren't completely surprised by the events you're facing before you.
Think of the case of a gravel truck that has a loose load. If I know there's a truck in front of me, I'm not 100% surprised if some gravel comes out, whereby if i'm reading/emailing and I'm forced to take over to avoid gravel, it's more of a surprise and I'm forced to figure quite a bit more out about the situation before I can act. One could also panic because of the amount of elevated emotion or adrenaline dump that would be taking place since you'd go from "reading iPad" to "dodging gravel".
So who pays for this? Is it everyone or just those that own electric vehicles?
I have a diesel car and nobody is helping to pay for my fuel consumption.
I've got some friends who work for the Fed and they loved the shutdown because they a) didn't have to go to work, b) weren't using up vacation days and c) were guaranteed backpay for the days the gov't was shutdown.
Nothing like a paid vacation.
So let me get this straight, wikileaks relies on a steady stream of gov't employees willing to risk their own careers to stay relevant?
Are they any different than the cold era KGB/CIA in that their main goal is to spy on the gov't?
It's never really worked. The main downtown area, Castro Street, service is abysmal. If I can get an IP address, page load times are terrible. On the other hand, turn off the wireless on my phone and go with 4G and surfing is nice and snappy.
This was a PR stunt by Google, they were never serious about this. Or the old addage, "you get what you pay for". Given all you needed to access it was a google account, of course they're going to do the bare minimum. Conversely, with Vz/ATT, you're paying for service.
Is it miserable to the researchers? Whether they got $9400 or $500, surely they don't mind the cash. If you want MSFT to pay you $100,000 to find bugs, then apply for a QA position at MSFT and negotiate a $100k salary.
If I had the skills of a security researcher, I'd look at this as a way to make a few easy bucks.
It's probably much more profitable for IBM to license the technology to Google/Yahoo/MSFT/whoever than it would be for IBM to build search infrastructure.
Seriously if I am having my Io cached *before* it is on oxide, I damn sure want to make sure it is redundant. This is the worst of all worlds frankly.
Maybe you should read up on the specs for these cache. The drives do not acknowledge the writes to the OS until the write has been committed to the persistent and non-volatile storage.
I had one of the laptop versions for about a year and a half now, and it's definitely an improvement over a traditional drive and considerably cheaper per GB than an SSD.
I'm not sure why the majority of the population wouldn't opt for these as they still give you decent capacity and speed over dedicated HD or SSD drives.
Sure they're not as good as a dedicated setup with a SSD and a HD, but then again, the average user can still install everything on their C: drive without making any changes from the default installation.
When the Prius came out all the local FD's went to training on how to safely put out a fire in them and more importantly how to extract a passenger in the event of a crash.
There was quite a bit of concern around using the jaws of life and cutting into a live wire.
And so the FD's will get more training on Tesla's as well.
You are five times more likely to be killed by a car than you are to get STUNG by one of these things, assuming you are in China.
Only five times? As someone that just got back from Beijing, I'm surprised I wasn't killed in a traffic accident. Crossing the street is taking your life in your own hands and a taxi cab will turn any atheist into a devout believer.
There's that old saying about there are no atheists in fox holes... well, hop in a Beijing cab and you too will pray for a safe passage. And yes these are the official taxis not the unlicensed ones.