I agree completely. It makes perfect sense to throttle large http transfers in order to provide low latency on VOIP packets, for instance. That's what QoS is all about.
If an ISP is providing stupid service, people will move away from it eventually. That's what the free market is about. If an ISP is too oppressive about their traffic shaping, people can find another ISP.
Telecom companies are implementing things like traffic shaping--that thing which squashes your bittorrent traffic while still allowing VOIP and google access to run at full speed. Lately, the telecom companies have started hinting that they might start charging for optimal delivery. That is that CNN's website, having paid for premium delivery with your ISP, will have 8x the bandwidth available to you as, for instance, youtube.
Net neutrality is the opposite of that. It dictates that all traffic must be treated equally.
It is NOT easy to maintain cryo temperatures in space. Disposing of heat in space is quite difficult, as your only means of heat loss is radiation and the sun tends to shine on whatever you're cooling most of the time.
This is actually nothing like a Fresnel lens. Fresnel lenses are based on refraction and tend to give horrible image quality since they have a whole bunch of concentric rings. This lens does things a completely different way. It's really a pretty clever piece of optics. It's functionally equivalent to putting a conical reflector over the imaging device and another reflector at the edge or the lens. They just get a longer focal length by bouncing it up and down more.
Many displays of altruism occur in the heat of the movement. I doubt just by playing a game a person can give any sign of whether or not they will throw themselves on a grenade to save a comrade's life five years hence.
And that's not the only reason the study's a little weird.
study on 45 volunteers
So they're measuring the altruism of... volunteers? Isn't that a bit self-defeating since a 'volunteer' is somewhat altruistic by definition?
I think Jericho is so obssesed about pigeons because it relates back to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carrier s [wikipedia.org] Specifically, the reference to "carrier pigeons" convinces me.
I find two immediate errors in this article: 1) Considering that the speed of light is thought to be decreasing, 14 billion light-years isn't light from 14 billion years ago. It's far more recent than that. 2) If the big bang theory is to be believed, our matter (that we lovingly call the earth) was at the big bang. It was a part of one of the early objects that the article refers to. That means that we can't be seeing the early components of the universe. If we were, we'd see our own matter too. That would imply that our matter had exceeded the speed of light to arrive here.
Way to make claims that violate the theory of relativity, NASA.
The easiest solution is an unsecured wifi network. With only one page accessible.
Anyone with a laptop or wifi enabled PDA can then gain access, leaving only a MAC address.
Making an anonymous system actually work requires removing all physical media, as they contain data that can allow identification (finger prints, etc.) anything over a wired network could be traced. Anything over phone lines can be traced with enough resources.
This leaves radio as an acceptable medium. To use radio, the most common kind, thus the most accessible kind is WiFi.
So all they need is a WiFi network with a web server serving a single page that allows for anonymous submissions.
Is this, by any chance, playing off of Asimov's laws?
I think that with the coming of iRobot, we're going to see more things playing off of Asimov. This may just be Google attempting to create a set of "Google's laws for the behaviour of software"
On a vaguely related note: In my city, I recently noticed that Asimov's laws for the conduct of robots were on plaques attached to a series of benches in front of the police station. I can't for the life of me figure out why those would be out in front of a police station.
Seriously... Dump the keyboard requirement and use the digital pen. It has built-in hadwriting recognition and will keep a memory of everything you write with it. It's not a computer--at least in the sense you meant--so it should fit the bill.
It's called "low voltage" because the term was coined by an engineer.
What they really intend is "low power" and one means by which to achieve that is by running at a lower core voltage. Someone who knew that then called the device a "low voltage" processor
Actually, you're right. Simply put, (and I am oversimplifying this) the shrouds you always find around the *pairs* of magnets effectively contain the magnetic field.
Try taking the two halves of the magnetic assembly in the hard drive and putting them together like how they are when mounted in the drive. Now bring your favorite piece of non-magnetized ferromagnetic material near the magnet pair. You should notice that there's virtually no attraction.
Now, put your ferromagnetic material *in the gap* between the magnets--you know, where the head positioning coil goes--and you've got a *huge* attraction.
The field exists almost exclusively between the magnets because of that magnetically conductive shroud around the outside of both the magnets.
in the '60s there just wasn't enough readily-minable cadmium reserves known to do the job
How about the "little" issue with battery memory? Car batteries are float charged. And they're used as filtering for the incredibly noisy electrical environment of a car.
NiCd batteries will lose all ability to retain a charge if you put them in a float charge scenario, and they'll be mighty poor at starting a car if they're used any other way.
The lack of available cadmium may have a lot to do with it, but I think battery memory also played a major role.
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I agree completely. It makes perfect sense to throttle large http transfers in order to provide low latency on VOIP packets, for instance. That's what QoS is all about.
If an ISP is providing stupid service, people will move away from it eventually. That's what the free market is about. If an ISP is too oppressive about their traffic shaping, people can find another ISP.
Telecom companies are implementing things like traffic shaping--that thing which squashes your bittorrent traffic while still allowing VOIP and google access to run at full speed. Lately, the telecom companies have started hinting that they might start charging for optimal delivery. That is that CNN's website, having paid for premium delivery with your ISP, will have 8x the bandwidth available to you as, for instance, youtube.
Net neutrality is the opposite of that. It dictates that all traffic must be treated equally.
It is NOT easy to maintain cryo temperatures in space. Disposing of heat in space is quite difficult, as your only means of heat loss is radiation and the sun tends to shine on whatever you're cooling most of the time.
This is actually nothing like a Fresnel lens. Fresnel lenses are based on refraction and tend to give horrible image quality since they have a whole bunch of concentric rings. This lens does things a completely different way. It's really a pretty clever piece of optics. It's functionally equivalent to putting a conical reflector over the imaging device and another reflector at the edge or the lens. They just get a longer focal length by bouncing it up and down more.
Many displays of altruism occur in the heat of the movement. I doubt just by playing a game a person can give any sign of whether or not they will throw themselves on a grenade to save a comrade's life five years hence.
And that's not the only reason the study's a little weird.
So they're measuring the altruism of... volunteers? Isn't that a bit self-defeating since a 'volunteer' is somewhat altruistic by definition?
What's the StC (Start to Crate) of Resistance: Fall of Man?
The first crate is when the developers ran out of ideas.
It's simple. There's a body of people who want the T-shirt to be true. They want Chix to dig Unix. Which is why I tagged this article chixdigunix.
That's why I tagged this "pissingcontest"
I think Jericho is so obssesed about pigeons because it relates back to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carrier s [wikipedia.org]
Specifically, the reference to "carrier pigeons" convinces me.
I think Jericho is so obssesed about pigeons because it relates back to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carrier s
Specifically, the reference to "carrier pigeons" convinces me.
I find two immediate errors in this article:
1) Considering that the speed of light is thought to be decreasing, 14 billion light-years isn't light from 14 billion years ago. It's far more recent than that.
2) If the big bang theory is to be believed, our matter (that we lovingly call the earth) was at the big bang. It was a part of one of the early objects that the article refers to. That means that we can't be seeing the early components of the universe. If we were, we'd see our own matter too. That would imply that our matter had exceeded the speed of light to arrive here.
Way to make claims that violate the theory of relativity, NASA.
Isn't there a large wealth of data about this at http://www.research.philips.com? It dates back at least one year.
This solution depends on the newspaper company, and how much you trust them. There are still logs to deal with.
The easiest solution is an unsecured wifi network. With only one page accessible.
Anyone with a laptop or wifi enabled PDA can then gain access, leaving only a MAC address.
Making an anonymous system actually work requires removing all physical media, as they contain data that can allow identification (finger prints, etc.) anything over a wired network could be traced. Anything over phone lines can be traced with enough resources.
This leaves radio as an acceptable medium. To use radio, the most common kind, thus the most accessible kind is WiFi.
So all they need is a WiFi network with a web server serving a single page that allows for anonymous submissions.
When I attempt to view the spoof, I get:
XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: http://www.nd.edu/~jsmith30/xul/test/browser.xul
Line Number 233, Column 35:<key id="key_newMessage" key="&sendMessage.commandkey;" command="Browser:NewMessage" modifiers="accel"/>
I'm running firefox 0.9.2, and it *does* remove the UI elements, but the spoofed UI fails to load.
Oh, that's good. The slashdot code thinks my post is lame because of "junk characters" when I leave the error position indicator in.
This story has already been posted here
Is this, by any chance, playing off of Asimov's laws?
I think that with the coming of iRobot, we're going to see more things playing off of Asimov. This may just be Google attempting to create a set of "Google's laws for the behaviour of software"
On a vaguely related note:
In my city, I recently noticed that Asimov's laws for the conduct of robots were on plaques attached to a series of benches in front of the police station. I can't for the life of me figure out why those would be out in front of a police station.
Just because it's +Funny modded doesn't make it a joke. It just means the mod thought it was Funny.
Whether or not the OP *intended* the post to be a joke is not decided by how the post is modded.
Lets follow this thread through and see what happened. First, thebra made a statement, then he cited a similar example to back himself up.
thebra:
Statement: "Well I'm gonna guess PETA might care."
Support:"They aren't happy about the military using dolphins."
Next kunudo made an assertion that we shouldn't care about thebra's statement
kunudo's Reply: "Screw PETA, kids avoid getting blown up while playing soccer etc beacuse of stuff like this."
Then you came out of left field, obviously having not understood the above sequence of posts.
You: "Why the hell are kids playing soccer in the ocean surrounded by mines?"
I think you missed something.
Ever heard of a *land* mine?
Seriously... Dump the keyboard requirement and use the digital pen. It has built-in hadwriting recognition and will keep a memory of everything you write with it. It's not a computer--at least in the sense you meant--so it should fit the bill.
Why not make all incoming faxes go to a server with a fax modem in it, and filter it like you would normal spam?
Alternatively, call your telephone company and demand that they block the spammer's number?
It's called "low voltage" because the term was coined by an engineer.
What they really intend is "low power" and one means by which to achieve that is by running at a lower core voltage. Someone who knew that then called the device a "low voltage" processor
Actually, you're right. Simply put, (and I am oversimplifying this) the shrouds you always find around the *pairs* of magnets effectively contain the magnetic field.
Try taking the two halves of the magnetic assembly in the hard drive and putting them together like how they are when mounted in the drive. Now bring your favorite piece of non-magnetized ferromagnetic material near the magnet pair. You should notice that there's virtually no attraction.
Now, put your ferromagnetic material *in the gap* between the magnets--you know, where the head positioning coil goes--and you've got a *huge* attraction.
The field exists almost exclusively between the magnets because of that magnetically conductive shroud around the outside of both the magnets.
How about the "little" issue with battery memory? Car batteries are float charged. And they're used as filtering for the incredibly noisy electrical environment of a car.
NiCd batteries will lose all ability to retain a charge if you put them in a float charge scenario, and they'll be mighty poor at starting a car if they're used any other way.
The lack of available cadmium may have a lot to do with it, but I think battery memory also played a major role.