About five years ago, I bought a 2.5" 80GB hard drive that I put into a USB enclosure. This was back in the days when USB thumb drives were crazily expensive for the capacity (compared to today).
It can get enough power through the USB connector from any desktop system, though my old Toshiba laptop couldn't power it.
USB power for rechargeable devices like cellphones, bluetooth headsets, media players, SatNavs is great. There's enough for a Peltier effect can-cooler/mug-warmer from some devices, but many hubs (even the one built in to my Dell monitor at work) just can't deliver.
Whole disc encryption; now if you could guarantee that the encryption couldn't be broken, that might be worthwhile... But I suspect that any encryption can be broken, eventually. But with a sufficiently strong algorithm, the information should be useless by that time. In the case of trade secrets, the secret is no longer valuable. In the case of criminal evidence, the suspect has already shuffled off this mortal coil (or the statute of limitations has been reached).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_limitations)
All that, however, is only useful if the physical device cannot be linked to the owner. I'm sure that in most countries if you are suspected of wrongdoing and you are arrested with an encrypted hard disc, you will be "required" to hand over the key so that the data can be decrypted.
In some states, the incitement to release the key will be applied by judicial means, but in others it will be by "extrajudicial" means, such as hoods, clubs, ice cold water, cattle prods... etc.
making a mistake on a single purchase does not prevent you from a second attempt.
In many cases of health care purchases, these two conditions are not met.
I am not a medical specialist, I am not a statistician. Do you really expect me to be able to diagnose my health problem and then collate all the "favorable outcomes" of all doctors before choosing my practitioner?
I am ill right now. I need to be cured, or at lease have the symptoms mitigated quickly, or else I stop working and maybe even stop breathing. This means I stop paying taxes to subsidize your set-top box so you can watch cage-fighting slapdown mouth-breathing wrestlefest.
If the doctor gets it wrong this time, it may well be game over for me...
When the FDA approves a medical device, your hands are really tied as to what modifications you can make to it, either as an end-user or even as the original supplier patching the system after release.
A better solution would be to build the devices on a more secure platform right from the initial design and development stage, and get FDA approval for it on that platform... but then if it was a simple as that, somebody would already be doing it, right?
If you cared to really study the statistics, you would notice two things.
So called "knife crime" has not dramatically increased in the recent decade.
Police statistics are not granular enough to distinguish between attacks with tools such as screwdrivers or chisels, household articles such as potato peelers and kitchen knives, or what English law would consider to be a purpose-made weapon (as opposed to a weapon "by intent").
Read more (news.bbc.co.uk is a good start), get out more, and frequent a few sites dealing with English Law as it relates to statistics (and/or assaults and blades).
What nonsense. The kaffiyeh is a bedouin or "palestinian" man's garb predominantly. When referring to women's veils or headscarves, you would probably mean the hijab or the even more concealing niqab.
Get your terminology right, before you try to educate the trolls...
Teaching in a high school or middle school is maybe less well paid than many jobs in commerce and industry in many parts of the US, but this is not universally true.
http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes252031.htm
How many jobs can you find where you can earn around $46000 a year straight from college at 22 or 23 years old? This salary can increase dramatically for teachers in certain metropolitan areas, and even more so for those teaching specialized subjects.
I hear from friends and relatives in the system (teachers, principals, technicians) that the first years are tough, and that the teachers spend a lot of "free time" on lesson plans and marking, but that after the first two years, a teachers get to enjoy 30 - 35 hour weeks, and a 38 week working year.
Many teachers supplement that salary by running extra activities, working in summer camps, private tutoring after school or in the vacations.
Teaching can be hell, in bad schools. But guess what? There are far tougher jobs, for less money. and anybody that went into teaching did so by choice, after firsthand experience as a student...
Native Client is an open-source research technology for running x86 native code in web applications, with the goal of maintaining the browser neutrality, OS portability, and safety that people expect from web apps.
This sounds to me like the Native Client is a virtual machine that will execute x86 code inside a browser, regardless of the underlying OS. It doesn't specifically mention hardware, but why not go the whole hog and make this work on any hardware?
At last! congratulations on explaining that this is the Council, whose members are not directly elected to that office but who are there by virtue of being elected in their own countries.
This might also be the place to point out that Cappato is not a Liberal, but a member of Rosa nel Pugno, a socialist party; more specifically, a party of the radical left.
Now, I was much less lucky with a newer non-OEM machine that a local store built from scratch for me.
I think I've probably built about four x86 computers for myself over the last twelve years, and have salvaged, run, or administered another six during that time...
Of those, a few have had minor hardware problems, or a bit of hardware that would simply not work at all but didn't prevent me from making use of the system as a whole (eg a WinModems, an MCA token-ring network card in a PS/2).
Since I started to take the job of building my computers more seriously, researching the hardware more fully, I have had almost not problem at all with bad hardware.
In fact, the worst-performing hardware I currently have would be the Optimus Mini-3 and the SpaceNavigator. Both work, sort of, but not yet at 100% of manfacturers'claimed performance.
I suspect that either you or the local store did a bad job of choosing the components for your computer. And that the other users on forums are probably doing the same... after years of "buy it, plug it in, run setup.exe to load the dlls and cross your fingers".
A country that cares about its citizens doesn't try to take over the health care industry, it allows people to get the amount or level of insurance they want and don't overload the system by making it free for all. Free for all means mediocre or poor for everyone.
Whereas the system as it stands in the US currently seems to be that:
the many, who can afford it,
pay a substantial percentage of their income in insurance premiums,
get a mediocre system and mediocre outcomes
the few, who can easily afford it,
pay a small percentage of their income in insurance premiums,
get a good system and mediocre outcomes
a sizable minority,
cannot find insurance with affordable premiums,
get a dire system and mediocre outcomes
Your example of Hawaii seems irrelevant. One incompetent attempt at implementing a system does not invalidate the system itself; it only serves to demonstrate the incompetence of that particular implementation.
Compare the seven months of the Hawaiian system with sixty years of the British system (not perfect, but a damn sight more efficient than the US system), the French system, the German system...
Lastly, it is pointless to draw Obama into the discussion. He's a politician, he'll say anything his campaign advisors tell him will win votes. He probably hasn't a clue what his proposals would really cost, nor where the money would come from. But then his opponent has no real clue either...
We already have our own USB stack for mass storage which will work on the sansas (and other portal player based targets), but we've had issues with it when used with SD cards plugged into the unit, which is why it's not currently enabled by default.
Now, there's something I would like to see! Native Rockbox USB support, with 4GB (and higher) microSD support!
I didn't realise that it was there, but not enabled... does this mean I can just turn it on, or do I need to download the source and compile it for myself?
That sounds admirable, and I would really like to see it, even though I would probably not use it...
My Sansa reverts to factory firmware when plugged into the computer, and said factory firmware can't handle the 4GB microSD card. So unless you get the Rockbox firmware to handle USB communication with the host, I'll carry on doing what I do now: plug the microSD card into an adapter, into the cardreader of my computer, copy files into an artist/album hierarchy, and have Rockbox update its database when booted.
Put your entire collection (i.e., all tracks from all albums) into a playlist, then shuffle that playlist.
I understand your confusion... I've had Rockbox on my Sansa c250 for probably a little over a year, and it took me a while to get used to the way playlists work.
Manuals are not always easy to understand. I find it helps to read it, go away and play with the thing for a week, then come back and read the manual again. This is true for most software, firmware and hardware devices, not just Rockboxed players.
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About five years ago, I bought a 2.5" 80GB hard drive that I put into a USB enclosure. This was back in the days when USB thumb drives were crazily expensive for the capacity (compared to today).
It can get enough power through the USB connector from any desktop system, though my old Toshiba laptop couldn't power it.
USB power for rechargeable devices like cellphones, bluetooth headsets, media players, SatNavs is great. There's enough for a Peltier effect can-cooler/mug-warmer from some devices, but many hubs (even the one built in to my Dell monitor at work) just can't deliver.
K
It's not a hammer, it's a mallet.
If it was a hammer, I'd expect to see something getting nailed.
But that's definitely a mallet, so maybe somethings just going to get whacked.
Whole disc encryption; now if you could guarantee that the encryption couldn't be broken, that might be worthwhile... But I suspect that any encryption can be broken, eventually. But with a sufficiently strong algorithm, the information should be useless by that time. In the case of trade secrets, the secret is no longer valuable. In the case of criminal evidence, the suspect has already shuffled off this mortal coil (or the statute of limitations has been reached). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_limitations)
All that, however, is only useful if the physical device cannot be linked to the owner. I'm sure that in most countries if you are suspected of wrongdoing and you are arrested with an encrypted hard disc, you will be "required" to hand over the key so that the data can be decrypted.
In some states, the incitement to release the key will be applied by judicial means, but in others it will be by "extrajudicial" means, such as hoods, clubs, ice cold water, cattle prods... etc.
Beef.
the Beatles weren't commercial at all.
I trust that was sarcasm...
Help! Hard day's night... those lamentably bad films...
The Monkees! was a tongue-in-cheek parody of the Beatles' commercialism.
Shopping around works when:
In many cases of health care purchases, these two conditions are not met.
When the FDA approves a medical device, your hands are really tied as to what modifications you can make to it, either as an end-user or even as the original supplier patching the system after release.
A better solution would be to build the devices on a more secure platform right from the initial design and development stage, and get FDA approval for it on that platform... but then if it was a simple as that, somebody would already be doing it, right?
K.
If you cared to really study the statistics, you would notice two things.
Read more (news.bbc.co.uk is a good start), get out more, and frequent a few sites dealing with English Law as it relates to statistics (and/or assaults and blades).
K.
I was puzzled on my first visit to US, which was to South Carolina... I saw signs on entering the mall: "no concealed weapons permitted".
This made me wonder
K.
What nonsense. The kaffiyeh is a bedouin or "palestinian" man's garb predominantly. When referring to women's veils or headscarves, you would probably mean the hijab or the even more concealing niqab.
Get your terminology right, before you try to educate the trolls...
K.
Teaching in a high school or middle school is maybe less well paid than many jobs in commerce and industry in many parts of the US, but this is not universally true.
http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes252031.htm
How many jobs can you find where you can earn around $46000 a year straight from college at 22 or 23 years old? This salary can increase dramatically for teachers in certain metropolitan areas, and even more so for those teaching specialized subjects.
I hear from friends and relatives in the system (teachers, principals, technicians) that the first years are tough, and that the teachers spend a lot of "free time" on lesson plans and marking, but that after the first two years, a teachers get to enjoy 30 - 35 hour weeks, and a 38 week working year.
Many teachers supplement that salary by running extra activities, working in summer camps, private tutoring after school or in the vacations.
Teaching can be hell, in bad schools. But guess what? There are far tougher jobs, for less money. and anybody that went into teaching did so by choice, after firsthand experience as a student...
K
Pyramid based triangulation...? No, that will never catch on.
K.
http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/?tbbrand=GZEZ&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-et-osrcblog&utm_medium=et
This sounds to me like the Native Client is a virtual machine that will execute x86 code inside a browser, regardless of the underlying OS. It doesn't specifically mention hardware, but why not go the whole hog and make this work on any hardware?
K.
I wish manufacturers would test the usability of cell phones and music players while wearing gloves.
And zippers, for that matter. And remote car door and garage door openers.
K.
Or get a strong "kiddy keyboard".
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=electronics&field-keywords=kids%20computer%20keyboard&page=1
K.
This is the final judgment of an appeal brough by Lego against the earlier judgment. http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=EN&Submit=Rechercher$docrequire=alldocs&numaff=T-270/06&datefs=&datefe=&nomusuel=&domaine=&mots=&resmax=100
K.
At last! congratulations on explaining that this is the Council, whose members are not directly elected to that office but who are there by virtue of being elected in their own countries.
This might also be the place to point out that Cappato is not a Liberal, but a member of Rosa nel Pugno, a socialist party; more specifically, a party of the radical left.
Just go to http://www.rosanelpugno.it/rosanelpugno/ for more proof.
Beef.
Now, I was much less lucky with a newer non-OEM machine that a local store built from scratch for me.
I think I've probably built about four x86 computers for myself over the last twelve years, and have salvaged, run, or administered another six during that time...
Of those, a few have had minor hardware problems, or a bit of hardware that would simply not work at all but didn't prevent me from making use of the system as a whole (eg a WinModems, an MCA token-ring network card in a PS/2).
Since I started to take the job of building my computers more seriously, researching the hardware more fully, I have had almost not problem at all with bad hardware.
In fact, the worst-performing hardware I currently have would be the Optimus Mini-3 and the SpaceNavigator. Both work, sort of, but not yet at 100% of manfacturers'claimed performance.
I suspect that either you or the local store did a bad job of choosing the components for your computer. And that the other users on forums are probably doing the same... after years of "buy it, plug it in, run setup.exe to load the dlls and cross your fingers".
K.
A country that cares about its citizens doesn't try to take over the health care industry, it allows people to get the amount or level of insurance they want and don't overload the system by making it free for all. Free for all means mediocre or poor for everyone.
Whereas the system as it stands in the US currently seems to be that:
Your example of Hawaii seems irrelevant. One incompetent attempt at implementing a system does not invalidate the system itself; it only serves to demonstrate the incompetence of that particular implementation.
Compare the seven months of the Hawaiian system with sixty years of the British system (not perfect, but a damn sight more efficient than the US system), the French system, the German system...
More importantly, compare the overall US performance with five other developed countries. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=482678
Lastly, it is pointless to draw Obama into the discussion. He's a politician, he'll say anything his campaign advisors tell him will win votes. He probably hasn't a clue what his proposals would really cost, nor where the money would come from. But then his opponent has no real clue either...
K.
We already have our own USB stack for mass storage which will work on the sansas (and other portal player based targets), but we've had issues with it when used with SD cards plugged into the unit, which is why it's not currently enabled by default.
Now, there's something I would like to see! Native Rockbox USB support, with 4GB (and higher) microSD support!
I didn't realise that it was there, but not enabled... does this mean I can just turn it on, or do I need to download the source and compile it for myself?
K
That sounds admirable, and I would really like to see it, even though I would probably not use it...
My Sansa reverts to factory firmware when plugged into the computer, and said factory firmware can't handle the 4GB microSD card. So unless you get the Rockbox firmware to handle USB communication with the host, I'll carry on doing what I do now: plug the microSD card into an adapter, into the cardreader of my computer, copy files into an artist/album hierarchy, and have Rockbox update its database when booted.
K
Put your entire collection (i.e., all tracks from all albums) into a playlist, then shuffle that playlist.
I understand your confusion... I've had Rockbox on my Sansa c250 for probably a little over a year, and it took me a while to get used to the way playlists work.
Manuals are not always easy to understand. I find it helps to read it, go away and play with the thing for a week, then come back and read the manual again. This is true for most software, firmware and hardware devices, not just Rockboxed players.
K
I believe it is a company from Canadia that owns the McCain Oven Chip trademark.
Must be true... there's even a Picky Weedia page about the firm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCain_Foods_Limited
K.
I suggest you read a series of BBC news magazine articles, starting here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7542886.stm
K
Sealand.
K.
That said, I am sure anyone who day traded today made a bundle of money if they hit the swings right.
No, not today.
This happened a couple of days ago. This is old news, as far as share price swings go...
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=UAUA#chart1:symbol=uaua;range=5d;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined
K.