Well, if they are radio-controlled then we can pinpoint the controller by radio
Yes, this! I envision a system where some radio seeking fully automated drones fly near the airport searching for hobbyists on the ground with radio transmitters. The drones can then fire beam-rider missiles at the drone operators before any passenger planes can run into the drones. Problem solved!
The 40 hour work week and overtime pay was a part of Roosevelt's New Deal as a scheme to get more people employed, at least part time. It wasn't part of anyone striking or dying.
It's one thing to have some batteries in your own car or house, but a battery for the grid? It would have to be the size of a resevoir lake. The best use would be to encourage everyone to get their own home/businessplace battery to let the electric grid have more level output regardless of time of day. Any business hates demand volitility and the electric co is no different. In particular, nuclear plants have a quite narrow operating band; it would really help justify new nuclear if the demand could be shown to be nice and level.
It's been a while since you shopped for an SSD? The larger capacity ones have nearly equal read and write speeds except for the most extreme budget brands.
If they have planets, of couse. And if you could intercept and move on to one of those planets, you could observe a much longer chunk of time go by in the rest of the universe. That would be fascinating for any astronomer.
Nice try at snobbery but it doesn't need to be infinite to be turing complete. And like an infinite number of monkey bashing on keyboards might eventually write "Hamlet", a truly infinite computer might contain the solution to the halting problem, thus making itself not turing complete any more. So there.
this for $35k? Intel? No, they must be more concerned with the work not getting done
In the details the guy mentions it was made by the night shift crew. Thier primary concern is probably having something interesting to help stay awake.
Isn't this pretty darn simple to figure out? The battery swap station just has to check the battery's current lifespan / charge capacity and set ones past their prime aside to be recycled instead of giving it to the next car.
All new cars have something called OBD2 and it is a connector down under the driver's side dash. There are plenty of brands/models of bluetooth and wifi dongles you can get to plug in to it ($20 and up)and a matching array of iOS and Android apps that will read all the engine stats off the dongle onto pretty dials on your phone or tablet.
but I wonder what is counted as a "passenger trip"
It's probably something like this: Husband, wife, and child leave the big city to visit husband's parents (3 passenger trips). Same group visits wife's parents (3 more passenger trips). Group returns to the big city, total 9 passenger trips.
there are 47 different state-based security breach notification laws
These retailers should be careful what they wish for. One of the main problems with health insurance used to be that every state had its own set of laws and licensing. Now that the feds took over the regulation of it they not only require everyone buy it but also dictate coverage levels, like it or not.
Is it really a prediction when the ceo says "the company of which I'm the ceo is planning our infrastucture to be able to handle x"? I don't get the original poster's bitchy tone on this article.
Yes, definitely, or at least a sizeable chunk. The "move app to sd card" operation will move a 10MB or so of a 1GB game to the card. And then the game may or may not still work. Why can't a critical small 10MB part stay on the built in storage, if worried about piracy, and the rest go on the card??
The assholes sent me to a job interview for a DBA post.
You went to an interview without even getting a job description? Excellent preparation on your part. I love sitting in on interviews with people who are that much interested in a position they're applying for - not!
Except her neighbor might complain wifi will interfere with his pacemaker or something and the senior center will be too paranoid of lawsuits to do anything. I suggest a clandestine repeater or boosted antenna. Pringles cans work wonders.
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Well, if they are radio-controlled then we can pinpoint the controller by radio
Yes, this! I envision a system where some radio seeking fully automated drones fly near the airport searching for hobbyists on the ground with radio transmitters. The drones can then fire beam-rider missiles at the drone operators before any passenger planes can run into the drones. Problem solved!
The 40 hour work week and overtime pay was a part of Roosevelt's New Deal as a scheme to get more people employed, at least part time. It wasn't part of anyone striking or dying.
It's one thing to have some batteries in your own car or house, but a battery for the grid? It would have to be the size of a resevoir lake.
The best use would be to encourage everyone to get their own home/businessplace battery to let the electric grid have more level output regardless of time of day. Any business hates demand volitility and the electric co is no different. In particular, nuclear plants have a quite narrow operating band; it would really help justify new nuclear if the demand could be shown to be nice and level.
It's been a while since you shopped for an SSD? The larger capacity ones have nearly equal read and write speeds except for the most extreme budget brands.
That's for the never implemented feature to allow extremely sucky videos to have a negative view count.
I don't remember the last time I saw a dine-in Pizza Hut; I thought they've all converted to takeout / delivery only.
If they have planets, of couse. And if you could intercept and move on to one of those planets, you could observe a much longer chunk of time go by in the rest of the universe. That would be fascinating for any astronomer.
Nice try at snobbery but it doesn't need to be infinite to be turing complete. And like an infinite number of monkey bashing on keyboards might eventually write "Hamlet", a truly infinite computer might contain the solution to the halting problem, thus making itself not turing complete any more. So there.
this for $35k? Intel? No, they must be more concerned with the work not getting done
In the details the guy mentions it was made by the night shift crew. Thier primary concern is probably having something interesting to help stay awake.
Isn't this pretty darn simple to figure out? The battery swap station just has to check the battery's current lifespan / charge capacity and set ones past their prime aside to be recycled instead of giving it to the next car.
North Koreans are lined up to get into China. The only problem is the risk of getting lined up for having tried to get into China.
All new cars have something called OBD2 and it is a connector down under the driver's side dash. There are plenty of brands/models of bluetooth and wifi dongles you can get to plug in to it ($20 and up)and a matching array of iOS and Android apps that will read all the engine stats off the dongle onto pretty dials on your phone or tablet.
At that point, rename them "Bobby"
Have you not been paying attention recently?
Using this for a space elevator isn't the best use for this
If a space elevator can be made practically out of this stuff then yes, a space elevator is the best use for it.
but I wonder what is counted as a "passenger trip"
It's probably something like this: Husband, wife, and child leave the big city to visit husband's parents (3 passenger trips). Same group visits wife's parents (3 more passenger trips). Group returns to the big city, total 9 passenger trips.
there are 47 different state-based security breach notification laws
These retailers should be careful what they wish for. One of the main problems with health insurance used to be that every state had its own set of laws and licensing. Now that the feds took over the regulation of it they not only require everyone buy it but also dictate coverage levels, like it or not.
You can't feather a jet.
Is it really a prediction when the ceo says "the company of which I'm the ceo is planning our infrastucture to be able to handle x"? I don't get the original poster's bitchy tone on this article.
Wookies probably felt the same way about politics before the Empire enslaved them to build the death star.
The most interesting part of star wars is the force
I thought the most interesting part was a plucky group of democracy minded rebels against a huge, oppressive dictatorship.
Yes, definitely, or at least a sizeable chunk. The "move app to sd card" operation will move a 10MB or so of a 1GB game to the card. And then the game may or may not still work. Why can't a critical small 10MB part stay on the built in storage, if worried about piracy, and the rest go on the card??
The assholes sent me to a job interview for a DBA post.
You went to an interview without even getting a job description? Excellent preparation on your part. I love sitting in on interviews with people who are that much interested in a position they're applying for - not!
Except her neighbor might complain wifi will interfere with his pacemaker or something and the senior center will be too paranoid of lawsuits to do anything.
I suggest a clandestine repeater or boosted antenna. Pringles cans work wonders.
To way too many people "critical thinking" seems to just mean criticizing the establishment just because it's the establishment.