I know it's still the title, I just haven't seen it spelt out as such, on anything around here at least.
Even things like passports have it trimmed down to just 'her majesty' and such... i can't think of anything modern i've seen that had the title in full on it.
I was looking at some (circa 1900) land grants here the other day. I always get a kick out of the title-in-full they have.
$REGENT, By the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, etc.
I thought this too. Why else do they not work without a network connection?
It must be all server based, it's not going to store the accounts and balances of every supported cardholder... Even if it did, it changes constantly, and still requires networking for current balances, new accounts, etc.
Bingo. My ageing Nokia, while lacking in horsepower, has excellent battery life... It has a 600MHz ARM, and a 3.2Wh battery. It manages to idle for a week at least, I'm sure it's hit 10 days before, but lets say 7, to be safe.
3.2W / 7 / 24 = 20mW idle. Two fucking orders of magnitude better than their *target*. (not to mention this includes the entire phone, not just the core, in real life).
I presume the more powerful android rigs still keep it within 100mW for the whole phone, idling. - That would give you roughly two days idle on a decent sized phone battery (5Wh). That's still more than an order of magnitude difference.
Well, if you actually wanted women's rights, schools, shunning religious extremism, and whatever other humanitarian claims they used to justify our presence there, then the Soviets would have been the wise choice.
If you wanted anything but soviets in power, to support american influence worldwide, no matter the cost, then yes, support the mujahideen.
Penal labour is something entirely different from extermination camps. (not that the conditions were amazing, but it's fundamentally different).
The Soviets never used a single nuke on enemies, it was purely defensive. You pretend like the US wasn't targeting Soviet cities... and never used them in an offensive role.
Yeah, I'd like something with openness like the beagle (so an ARM from... TI, Atmel, NXP, etc - no NDA bullshit, single quantity readily available) and the price of this thing.
I don't really care if they cut the speed down to 3-400MHz and drop video to do it, but maybe I'm an edge case...
Not for long, though. The corporate appeasement party finally got their majority, and will likely soon pass some fairly draconian measures, that they tried to pass in the past and could not.
Not entirely sure if it would apply to this, but I think it would. IIRC the gist of the bill seems fairly reasonable at first, some fair dealing exemptions and such, the right to transfer to different media, etc. It then goes on to state that if the media/device has DRM it is illegal to break it, therefore rendering all the rights given useless.
Centrino (i.e. pentium M) was a leaps and bounds improvement over the P4 "mobile" chips (I use the "mobile" bit very lightly). I seem to think they started at around 25W TDP and worked down to as little as 5 or 10W with die shrinks and lower voltage cores.
However, ARM stuff is usually much less than that still, and those numbers don't account for chipset and video, which is generally integrated on the ARM devices.
However the caps and overage fees are definitely an issue, and I can see this being part of a plan to get that bandwidth used up earlier, and collect the overage fees. Dirty, but we should know better than to assume they're doing something for the good of the customers.
I'm still dreaming of the day when the physical layer is run by an agency that has no relation to the provider, and the provider of your choice can hook up at the CO. The current setup is too much of a conflict of interest, and they'll want low caps so people use their TV services and such. This should never be...
caller: Is it true freedom of speech is the same in the US and USSR?
radio: In theory yes, In USA you can yell "Down with Reagan!!" in front of the white house, and you will not be punished. In USSR, you can yell "Down with Reagan!!" in front of Kremlin and also not be punished.
And three letter agencies, hell, police in general, seem to want to ignore civil rights whenever it is convenient. They're the annoying things you need to work around, not uphold.
Yep, this was the UK's version of AT&T and Bell Labs (prior to the break up, that is).
I seem to recall the GPO did a lot of vacuum tube logic and such in the formative years of computing, among other things.... It's slightly different in that it was held by the crown, as opposed to the US system of a govn't granted and regulated monopoly (not state owned), but filled a similar role.
I suppose hudson might have shook things up a bit, lately. I've never used a machine with one, so I'm not familiar with the performance.
I was thinking before that, when you had a choice between cheap atom based netbooks, and expensive sub notebooks (say IBM X series - which are quite nice, but 3-4x the price, at least). That's when things went stagnant for them, anyway.
I guess if the only difference between these two is the battery and charger, at $80, might be wiser to get the cheaper one, and pick those up on ebay? Guess I'll have to look into it some more.
Have you hacked on them at all, yourself?
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Pretty much. There isn't much I don't need a keyboard for, and when I'm watching something it doubles as a 'tablet support device'.
On the el camino front - due to the same fact that leads people to believe Australia will survive nuclear war, they also missed the memo that "utes" are out of style. see here.
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I know it's still the title, I just haven't seen it spelt out as such, on anything around here at least.
Even things like passports have it trimmed down to just 'her majesty' and such... i can't think of anything modern i've seen that had the title in full on it.
I was looking at some (circa 1900) land grants here the other day. I always get a kick out of the title-in-full they have.
$REGENT, By the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, etc.
I thought this too. Why else do they not work without a network connection?
It must be all server based, it's not going to store the accounts and balances of every supported cardholder... Even if it did, it changes constantly, and still requires networking for current balances, new accounts, etc.
Nope, no degrees. studied at a seminary off and on until he was 20 or so, iirc.
Pretty wild how a peasant can take a country of mostly peasants and turn it into an industrial superpower in 20 years, with little education no less.
Bingo. My ageing Nokia, while lacking in horsepower, has excellent battery life... It has a 600MHz ARM, and a 3.2Wh battery. It manages to idle for a week at least, I'm sure it's hit 10 days before, but lets say 7, to be safe.
3.2W / 7 / 24 = 20mW idle. Two fucking orders of magnitude better than their *target*. (not to mention this includes the entire phone, not just the core, in real life).
I presume the more powerful android rigs still keep it within 100mW for the whole phone, idling. - That would give you roughly two days idle on a decent sized phone battery (5Wh). That's still more than an order of magnitude difference.
This, so very much. I've always found it mindboggling to pay for standards like this.
Pay for the work creating the standard, sure. But copies? (digital no less) wtf? Don't they want people to adopt the standard?
I can see if it's some small industry-specific council perhaps, but the ISO?!
How many people did capitalism kill 'directly or indirectly'?
Well, if you actually wanted women's rights, schools, shunning religious extremism, and whatever other humanitarian claims they used to justify our presence there, then the Soviets would have been the wise choice.
If you wanted anything but soviets in power, to support american influence worldwide, no matter the cost, then yes, support the mujahideen.
Penal labour is something entirely different from extermination camps. (not that the conditions were amazing, but it's fundamentally different).
The Soviets never used a single nuke on enemies, it was purely defensive. You pretend like the US wasn't targeting Soviet cities... and never used them in an offensive role.
Yeah, I'd like something with openness like the beagle (so an ARM from... TI, Atmel, NXP, etc - no NDA bullshit, single quantity readily available) and the price of this thing.
I don't really care if they cut the speed down to 3-400MHz and drop video to do it, but maybe I'm an edge case...
Naturally engineers never make mistakes. ;-)
Not for long, though. The corporate appeasement party finally got their majority, and will likely soon pass some fairly draconian measures, that they tried to pass in the past and could not.
Not entirely sure if it would apply to this, but I think it would. IIRC the gist of the bill seems fairly reasonable at first, some fair dealing exemptions and such, the right to transfer to different media, etc. It then goes on to state that if the media/device has DRM it is illegal to break it, therefore rendering all the rights given useless.
Centrino (i.e. pentium M) was a leaps and bounds improvement over the P4 "mobile" chips (I use the "mobile" bit very lightly).
I seem to think they started at around 25W TDP and worked down to as little as 5 or 10W with die shrinks and lower voltage cores.
However, ARM stuff is usually much less than that still, and those numbers don't account for chipset and video, which is generally integrated on the ARM devices.
Aborting throttling is definitely a good thing.
However the caps and overage fees are definitely an issue, and I can see this being part of a plan to get that bandwidth used up earlier, and collect the overage fees. Dirty, but we should know better than to assume they're doing something for the good of the customers.
I'm still dreaming of the day when the physical layer is run by an agency that has no relation to the provider, and the provider of your choice can hook up at the CO.
The current setup is too much of a conflict of interest, and they'll want low caps so people use their TV services and such. This should never be...
I don't know how many arduino LED blinking stories are out there, but there is definitely too many.
I read the first page and it reads like an ad for the overpriced adafruit outfit. no thanks.
A guy calls in to radio Yerevan.
caller: Is it true freedom of speech is the same in the US and USSR?
radio: In theory yes,
In USA you can yell "Down with Reagan!!" in front of the white house, and you will not be punished.
In USSR, you can yell "Down with Reagan!!" in front of Kremlin and also not be punished.
And three letter agencies, hell, police in general, seem to want to ignore civil rights whenever it is convenient. They're the annoying things you need to work around, not uphold.
Yep, this was the UK's version of AT&T and Bell Labs (prior to the break up, that is).
I seem to recall the GPO did a lot of vacuum tube logic and such in the formative years of computing, among other things....
It's slightly different in that it was held by the crown, as opposed to the US system of a govn't granted and regulated monopoly (not state owned), but filled a similar role.
I've always interpreted it as almost impossible, but yeah, stupid term.
Definition of ALL BUT
: very nearly : almost <would be all but impossible>
Examples of ALL BUT
Without you the job would have been all but impossible.
We had all but given up hope.
Your puny open letter is powerless against our massive bribes^W donations.
Maybe if the letter was attached to a large wad of cash it might change some minds in congress, otherwise good luck.
Why go to that horrible socialist country when you could go to the capitalist paradise that is Haiti?
I suppose hudson might have shook things up a bit, lately. I've never used a machine with one, so I'm not familiar with the performance.
I was thinking before that, when you had a choice between cheap atom based netbooks, and expensive sub notebooks (say IBM X series - which are quite nice, but 3-4x the price, at least). That's when things went stagnant for them, anyway.
I guess if the only difference between these two is the battery and charger, at $80, might be wiser to get the cheaper one, and pick those up on ebay? Guess I'll have to look into it some more.
Have you hacked on them at all, yourself?
Pretty much. There isn't much I don't need a keyboard for, and when I'm watching something it doubles as a 'tablet support device'.
On the el camino front - due to the same fact that leads people to believe Australia will survive nuclear war, they also missed the memo that "utes" are out of style.
see here.
That's part of it for sure, however I think the performance of atom processors left a bad taste, too.
And if you want a netbookish sub-notebook with a real processor, it costs more than a normal size laptop.
Interesting, I thought they used to cost a lot more (as much as the vacuums, so I figured you be better off hacking one of them).
hmm, it shows in the items included:
Battery Case (holds 12 non-rechargeable alkaline batteries. Batteries not included)
I thought the normal roombas have a big Nimh or so battery, and a dock? Might still be worth while to get the vacuum if that's the case...
Think I'll pick up one of the vacuum models at some point, that way if I get bored of it, it can still have a function ;)