You'd think that in the future, they'd figure out how to build a console that does not explode. It'd save a lot of lives. I guess there's no Ralph Naders in the future.
I've always wondered about that. But I have seen metric ton and metric tonne. I thought it was a American/British thing like color/colour. But if the limeys understand that a tonne is 1000kg, I am cool with that.
Documented efficiencies for the first prototypes were found to be in the order of 20 grams of lift per watt of input power. This means that with this original concept, even before any real research and development, we were already looking at a lift of 1 -1 ½ tons of weight in the air with 100 hp.
Argh! Metric and english units interchanged?!? Can anyone say Mars Climate Orbiter? Why can't people stick to one system of measurement. I don't care which one, just pick one. Sorry for the rant.
Handy dandy conversion chart...
1 hp is about 745 watts.
1-1 ½ tons could be metric or english. which is either 1000 kg (about 2200 lbs) or 2000 lbs (about 909 kg).
The article should be written like this... Documented efficiencies for the first prototypes were found to be in the order of 20 grams of lift per watt of input power. This means that with this original concept, even before any real research and development, we were already looking at a lift of 1 metric ton (1 -1 ½ tons) of weight in the air with 75 kW (100 hp).
Notice the consistency in units. Other systems are noted in parenthesis. This is good technical writing.
AT&T. I even bought a refurbished phone for $20. So for about $90 ($20 phone + $30 prepaid card + $30 hookup fee + tax), I was out the door. I got pretty lucky with my salesman, because I have asked others about refurbished phones and prepaid, and they usually plead ignorance or generally treat you like you have the plague. They probably don't get any commissions on it, so they have little incentive to offer it.
Granted, there's no glitzy features and the phone is an old Nokia, but it works well enough for me.
I use my cell phone on average, less than an hour a month. They are simple calls to friends and family, to see where they are, what is going on, etc. I do not get family updates on my cellphone. This does not apply to everyone, but I'm sure there are a bunch of people out there like me with 4000 minute calling plans that they really don't need.
Prepaid is a better deal for light useage folks like me. I pay $30 and I have 60 days to use that credit (which covers the two hours that I talk). That's it. If I had the minimum contract ($35) I would spend $75 after taxes and fees for the same amount of time. It is a no-brainer.
I'll bet you the biggest problem is during the companies' "free evenings and weekend" periods. They did this in order to level the network load over different time periods. It looks like they may have shifted too much into that time period.
So buy the phone and do a pre-pay option. Chance are, you do not need all those extra minutes.
Does Sprint still do the month-to-month billing if you own your phone? A few years ago, one of their ad points was "No commitments". Do they still do that and not promote it?
Microsoft said that about 16 games with online play capabilities will be available by the end of the year. So has anyone already tried it? If so, what do you think about it?"
How can someone try it if the games are not available yet?
Although safeforkids.org is taken, there is nothing from stopping a non-profit from setting up their own subdomain.
It could be because of lack of real demand. People may scream for a kid safe internet, but when you tell them they need to manage a proxy, or set up different accounts on their computer, they lose interest.
This new law will force you to leave your radio and TV on even while you aren't paying attention to it. Furthermore junk mail will no longer be able to be discarded without an affidavit that states the recipient has read and understands the offer. Street mimes and homeless people wearing commercial signs must be paid attention to by anyone within a 10 foot radius. You will be required to sample every free offering at the Food Court in the mall and surveyors cannot be ignored. All fliers distributed on your vehicle must be followed up with a phone call or your vehicle will be impounded. You will be required to contact every business that advertises at sporting events if you choose to attend.
Failure to abide by these rules will result in the forfeiture of all assets and the garnishing of all wages earned, which will be deposited into the Federal Marketing Enforcement Fund. Monies from this fund are distributed to companies whose marketing campaigns are not successful.
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It will also allow the president to kill good legislation that does not agree with his viewpoint. Or he may not line item pork for his party, but kill the other party's. There's no provision for using the line-item veto responsibly.
In the end it would just add to the distributed blame game in Washington without improving the overall efficiency of government.
They should let you specify which ports you want blocked. That way they can configure their routers to suit your needs. This is adventageous because if the blocking happens on the ISP side, the blocked traffic does not clog up your connection. If the ISP lets everything through for you to filter, it still eats up some bandwidth, even if it doesn't do anything else.
More likely, it's one of the following... * someone at the replication shop who stays late from time to time. * An exec's assistant who dubs the prerelease copy before handing it off to their boss.
What's the quote? Never attribute to maliciousness that which can be explained by incompetence. Heinlein? William of Occam?
I agree with you, although I think that we have reached the point where it will be very difficult for the Earth to get rid of us. We are already surviving in hostile environments where we do not belong. Any climate changes that the earth can dish out will be unlikely to kill us off. It might reduce the population by 99%, but there will probably always be some small communities somewhere eeking out a living in a niche environment.
The Register's problem is not that they have opinions or that their stories lack facts, but that they often mix the opinions and the facts together into the same article. Newspapers have a separate Op-Ed section for opinions because they devalue news content. Ideally news would be all facts, but as long as humans write the news, there will always be a slant to it. The Register makes no efforts to keep their opinions out of the news.
That is why I don't read the Register. I don't want to let some journalist form my opinions and I don't have the patience to sift through their articles separating fact from fiction. Just give me the plain, boring facts, instead of making every event look like the end of the world.
Green is used because the human eye is more sensitive to it. Red is used in machines because most detectors are most sensitive to the red area of the spectrum.
I'll be reviewing my Bloom County books.
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People don't care about what OS the phone is running nearly as much as the telcos that have to support it. Also, phones are not percieved as computers and the branding of the software that runs on them matters little because the branding is on the device. Folks buy a Nokia or Motorola phone, not a Microsoft or Symbian phone.
An attacker could just scan a (network) subnet for IP addresses belonging to Linksys routers.
The IP addresses for most users are assigned by their providers, not Linksys. The only thing I can think of that would give the router away would be the MAC address, but that is only available on the local segment, not to the internet at large, correct?
If this is the case, then "hackers" would have to scan every IP in a subnet because there is no way to determine if a particular IP number is connected to a Linksys router.
Couple this with the fact that the remote access feature is disabled and the threat is reduced.
About the only credible threat would be receiving an HTML email with the default local IP number in it. This would probably get most users since the average person is going to design their home network around their router defaults. When they view the email, the request goes to the router and takes it out of service.
When I'm in the mood, I'll keep the phone to my ear and continue what I am doing. When they ask if I am interested, I respond "I'm sorry I didn't get all that. I was... "
"Cooking/Eating" "Watching 'Law and Order'" "Fixing my model airplane engine" "Playing 'Comanche'" "Changing my kid's diaper"
I've got a whole list of things I'd like to do while talking to telemarketers. I'd like to have sex during a sales call, but my wife won't go for that (yet).
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You'd think that in the future, they'd figure out how to build a console that does not explode. It'd save a lot of lives. I guess there's no Ralph Naders in the future.
Just think of all the amateur porn that will be available!
I've always wondered about that. But I have seen metric ton and metric tonne. I thought it was a American/British thing like color/colour. But if the limeys understand that a tonne is 1000kg, I am cool with that.
Argh! Metric and english units interchanged?!? Can anyone say Mars Climate Orbiter? Why can't people stick to one system of measurement. I don't care which one, just pick one. Sorry for the rant.
Handy dandy conversion chart...
1 hp is about 745 watts.
1-1 ½ tons could be metric or english. which is either 1000 kg (about 2200 lbs) or 2000 lbs (about 909 kg).
The article should be written like this...
Documented efficiencies for the first prototypes were found to be in the order of 20 grams of lift per watt of input power. This means that with this original concept, even before any real research and development, we were already looking at a lift of 1 metric ton (1 -1 ½ tons) of weight in the air with 75 kW (100 hp).
Notice the consistency in units. Other systems are noted in parenthesis. This is good technical writing.
AT&T. I even bought a refurbished phone for $20. So for about $90 ($20 phone + $30 prepaid card + $30 hookup fee + tax), I was out the door. I got pretty lucky with my salesman, because I have asked others about refurbished phones and prepaid, and they usually plead ignorance or generally treat you like you have the plague. They probably don't get any commissions on it, so they have little incentive to offer it.
Granted, there's no glitzy features and the phone is an old Nokia, but it works well enough for me.
I use my cell phone on average, less than an hour a month. They are simple calls to friends and family, to see where they are, what is going on, etc. I do not get family updates on my cellphone. This does not apply to everyone, but I'm sure there are a bunch of people out there like me with 4000 minute calling plans that they really don't need.
Prepaid is a better deal for light useage folks like me. I pay $30 and I have 60 days to use that credit (which covers the two hours that I talk). That's it. If I had the minimum contract ($35) I would spend $75 after taxes and fees for the same amount of time. It is a no-brainer.
I'll bet you the biggest problem is during the companies' "free evenings and weekend" periods. They did this in order to level the network load over different time periods. It looks like they may have shifted too much into that time period.
So buy the phone and do a pre-pay option. Chance are, you do not need all those extra minutes.
Does Sprint still do the month-to-month billing if you own your phone? A few years ago, one of their ad points was "No commitments". Do they still do that and not promote it?
Microsoft said that about 16 games with online play capabilities will be available by the end of the year. So has anyone already tried it? If so, what do you think about it?"
How can someone try it if the games are not available yet?
Although safeforkids.org is taken, there is nothing from stopping a non-profit from setting up their own subdomain.
It could be because of lack of real demand. People may scream for a kid safe internet, but when you tell them they need to manage a proxy, or set up different accounts on their computer, they lose interest.
This new law will force you to leave your radio and TV on even while you aren't paying attention to it. Furthermore junk mail will no longer be able to be discarded without an affidavit that states the recipient has read and understands the offer. Street mimes and homeless people wearing commercial signs must be paid attention to by anyone within a 10 foot radius. You will be required to sample every free offering at the Food Court in the mall and surveyors cannot be ignored. All fliers distributed on your vehicle must be followed up with a phone call or your vehicle will be impounded. You will be required to contact every business that advertises at sporting events if you choose to attend.
Failure to abide by these rules will result in the forfeiture of all assets and the garnishing of all wages earned, which will be deposited into the Federal Marketing Enforcement Fund. Monies from this fund are distributed to companies whose marketing campaigns are not successful.
It will also allow the president to kill good legislation that does not agree with his viewpoint. Or he may not line item pork for his party, but kill the other party's. There's no provision for using the line-item veto responsibly.
In the end it would just add to the distributed blame game in Washington without improving the overall efficiency of government.
They should let you specify which ports you want blocked. That way they can configure their routers to suit your needs. This is adventageous because if the blocking happens on the ISP side, the blocked traffic does not clog up your connection. If the ISP lets everything through for you to filter, it still eats up some bandwidth, even if it doesn't do anything else.
That's why you NEVER agree to take a cut of the profits. You take a cut of the gross revenue. That way there can be no accounting games.
You're paranoid. They're not that smart.
More likely, it's one of the following...
* someone at the replication shop who stays late from time to time.
* An exec's assistant who dubs the prerelease copy before handing it off to their boss.
What's the quote? Never attribute to maliciousness that which can be explained by incompetence. Heinlein? William of Occam?
I agree with you, although I think that we have reached the point where it will be very difficult for the Earth to get rid of us. We are already surviving in hostile environments where we do not belong. Any climate changes that the earth can dish out will be unlikely to kill us off. It might reduce the population by 99%, but there will probably always be some small communities somewhere eeking out a living in a niche environment.
The Register's problem is not that they have opinions or that their stories lack facts, but that they often mix the opinions and the facts together into the same article. Newspapers have a separate Op-Ed section for opinions because they devalue news content. Ideally news would be all facts, but as long as humans write the news, there will always be a slant to it. The Register makes no efforts to keep their opinions out of the news.
That is why I don't read the Register. I don't want to let some journalist form my opinions and I don't have the patience to sift through their articles separating fact from fiction. Just give me the plain, boring facts, instead of making every event look like the end of the world.
Green is used because the human eye is more sensitive to it. Red is used in machines because most detectors are most sensitive to the red area of the spectrum.
One page a day shouldn't be a problem.
People don't care about what OS the phone is running nearly as much as the telcos that have to support it. Also, phones are not percieved as computers and the branding of the software that runs on them matters little because the branding is on the device. Folks buy a Nokia or Motorola phone, not a Microsoft or Symbian phone.
It looks like satellite is covered, too. I suppose it helps to read the ENTIRE article.
Or only the regualted cable providers?
Quoth the article...
An attacker could just scan a (network) subnet for IP addresses belonging to Linksys routers.
The IP addresses for most users are assigned by their providers, not Linksys. The only thing I can think of that would give the router away would be the MAC address, but that is only available on the local segment, not to the internet at large, correct?
If this is the case, then "hackers" would have to scan every IP in a subnet because there is no way to determine if a particular IP number is connected to a Linksys router.
Couple this with the fact that the remote access feature is disabled and the threat is reduced.
About the only credible threat would be receiving an HTML email with the default local IP number in it. This would probably get most users since the average person is going to design their home network around their router defaults. When they view the email, the request goes to the router and takes it out of service.
Better upgrade that firmware.
When I'm in the mood, I'll keep the phone to my ear and continue what I am doing. When they ask if I am interested, I respond "I'm sorry I didn't get all that. I was ... "
"Cooking/Eating"
"Watching 'Law and Order'"
"Fixing my model airplane engine"
"Playing 'Comanche'"
"Changing my kid's diaper"
I've got a whole list of things I'd like to do while talking to telemarketers. I'd like to have sex during a sales call, but my wife won't go for that (yet).
Does the Navy have plans for some shark mounted lasers. Or am I thinking of someone else?
The last sentance does:
The two companies hope to blend their technologies to improve the lifetime of the dendrimers.