The power regulation of the 2.4GHz band in Europe is severely limiting the growth of community access wireless networks[1]. The UK currently has additional regulation[2] which also disallows ISPs from making commercial use of the band.
[1] 100mW EIRP. [2] Seems to be under review at the moment.
It's a worthwhile exercise. Similar information and sets of rules would have to be gathered and used to teach any true AI in the future anyway in order to bootstrap it into a useful state. The alternative is that each AI starts as a newborn and has to be taught manually.
Monocultures are prone to being wiped out by a single disease. If you have diversity, that won't happen. It's the reason that there are different sexes.
But to be honest, the IT bods should know better than to keep their companies crown jewels locked in a safe that they will only be able to open for a certain amount of time.
I personally replaced my defunct HP 550C inkjet with a Panasonic KX-P7110 laser. It's network enabled, duplex and will do 4,000 pages for the cost of 150 pages on an inkjet.
Invention starts with a single individual having a compelling idea. They don't start out as massively complex projects, they grow to be that way. A jet engine for example is a beautifully simple concept, but a modern jet engine now has complex control systems that the prototypes never had.
Television - Baird BTW, not Farnsworth. Telephone. Hovercraft. Jet engine. Pneumatic tyres. RADAR.
Just some examples where individuals had such good ideas that they felt compelled to pursue them.
Large companies do not have inventions. The collective IQ of a large company is pretty damned low, for every bright spark, there's half a dozen PHBs making sure he doesn't rock the boat or upset the gravy train.
Where companies help is with continuing incremental development, marketing and sales of the initial idea, usually after it's already proven to have commercial applications.
It has to be said that Americans aren't really very good at invention anyway. It's the Scots especially and to a lesser extent, the English who are truly world class inventors.
It's the reduced CPU utilisation you get with SCSI and don't with IDE. They could plug in additional SCSI HBA's to boost the bus throughput. Not that an individual physical drive is going to push much more than 20Mb/second anyway.
One of the reasons I like Kyocera laser printers. Very very low cost per page running costs. Almost 1/10 the cost per page of other laser printers.
Inkjets are spectacularly expensive per page. A cartridge only lasts a couple of hundred pages. That's fine if you only print 100 pages per year at regular intervals since they clog as well.
And they don't place them near accident blackspots they place them for maximum revenue generation.
The accident rate is up 100% this year. Oh no, that's just a statistical anomaly, nothing to do with the cameras. Yet when the rate goes down it's the cameras making the roads safer.
Bullshit. The evidence is that the cameras have bugger all effect on accident rates. Weather, driver inattention, lack of observation, mobile phones, drinking, eating, driving without glasses, changing the radio station and just utter utter stupidity are what cause accidents.
What you do is you find out who your politician/whoever is in charge. Get plates made up with his car's license number and you run a few sets of cameras with those plates on a vehicle.
They don't work. Statistically, they have *absolutely no effect* on the numbers of killed or seriously injured in regions that are rolling them out. It's purely revenue generation.
Last year the number of accidents dropped by around 30% and the cameras were acclaimed as a massive success to all. Unfortunately this year the accident rate is up 100% and they are now saying oh yes we have peaks and troughs in the accident rates but of course the cameras are working.
It's clear that any effect on road safety that the cameras have is negligible.
Older fluorescent technologies maybe but the current crop of products in the shops come in different colours and shades of light.
Phillips for instance do a fluorescent bulb which they describe as warm white is the same shape and is only fractionally bigger than a normal bulb. Fits in a standard socket and lasts for, well, 5 years in my case.
The bulbs are still more expensive than normal ones but you save in buying replacements and in electricity costs.
I've replaced all my regular bulbs with fluorescent bulbs and there's no perceptible flicker. They have little bits of electronics in the base of the bulb which stops them flickering.
Go read: http://www.fujilite.com/product-features.htm
They last longer too. Just had one fail, for the first time in 5 years. It was a bit of a shock, I can tell you. I'd forgotten all about buying replacement bulbs.
The more people and ISPs who start using software like Pyzor the more pointless spam becomes. It routes directly to a spam mailbox completely bypassing potential customers.
http://pyzor.sourceforge.net/
The more users it has, the more effective it becomes. Pyzor uses a central database of spam hashes to compare incoming mail against. If the hash of the body of the incoming mail matches an entry in the database then it's a spam. Discard it.
Sure someone will followup to say that they'll include random characters in each individual mail to change the hash values or they'll change parts of the message on each mail. Yes the authors are aware of this and the software already takes this into account.
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The power regulation of the 2.4GHz band in Europe is severely limiting the growth of community access wireless networks[1]. The UK currently has additional regulation[2] which also disallows ISPs from making commercial use of the band.
[1] 100mW EIRP.
[2] Seems to be under review at the moment.
Which is why i bought a Psion series 5. All the features the others have and a truly usable keyboard.
It's a worthwhile exercise. Similar information and sets of rules would have to be gathered and used to teach any true AI in the future anyway in order to bootstrap it into a useful state. The alternative is that each AI starts as a newborn and has to be taught manually.
I don't think so but where are all the safety concerns over petrol?
Monocultures are prone to being wiped out by a single disease. If you have diversity, that won't happen. It's the reason that there are different sexes.
But to be honest, the IT bods should know better than to keep their companies crown jewels locked in a safe that they will only be able to open for a certain amount of time.
Great for businesses with high print volumes.
I personally replaced my defunct HP 550C inkjet with a Panasonic KX-P7110 laser. It's network enabled, duplex and will do 4,000 pages for the cost of 150 pages on an inkjet.
Species die out, new species evolve.
Attempting to stop time and preserve all existing species at a specific point in time is a truly futile act.
I should be on the crew of course. Who else?
Invention starts with a single individual having a compelling idea. They don't start out as massively complex projects, they grow to be that way. A jet engine for example is a beautifully simple concept, but a modern jet engine now has complex control systems that the prototypes never had.
Television - Baird BTW, not Farnsworth.
Telephone.
Hovercraft.
Jet engine.
Pneumatic tyres.
RADAR.
Just some examples where individuals had such good ideas that they felt compelled to pursue them.
Large companies do not have inventions. The collective IQ of a large company is pretty damned low, for every bright spark, there's half a dozen PHBs making sure he doesn't rock the boat or upset the gravy train.
Where companies help is with continuing incremental development, marketing and sales of the initial idea, usually after it's already proven to have commercial applications.
It has to be said that Americans aren't really very good at invention anyway. It's the Scots especially and to a lesser extent, the English who are truly world class inventors.
And get someone with a license to drive it and they perform regular maintenance on it.
And they get someone with the skills to use it.
You are a complete and utter numpty. Do people actually pay you money to provide services?
It's the reduced CPU utilisation you get with SCSI and don't with IDE. They could plug in additional SCSI HBA's to boost the bus throughput. Not that an individual physical drive is going to push much more than 20Mb/second anyway.
One of the reasons I like Kyocera laser printers. Very very low cost per page running costs. Almost 1/10 the cost per page of other laser printers.
Inkjets are spectacularly expensive per page. A cartridge only lasts a couple of hundred pages. That's fine if you only print 100 pages per year at regular intervals since they clog as well.
My next home printer will be a laser.
And they don't place them near accident blackspots they place them for maximum revenue generation.
The accident rate is up 100% this year. Oh no, that's just a statistical anomaly, nothing to do with the cameras. Yet when the rate goes down it's the cameras making the roads safer.
Bullshit. The evidence is that the cameras have bugger all effect on accident rates. Weather, driver inattention, lack of observation, mobile phones, drinking, eating, driving without glasses, changing the radio station and just utter utter stupidity are what cause accidents.
Simple.
I regularly max out my bike. That's close to 200mph.
Unless slashdot is heaven, I'm still alive.
What you do is you find out who your politician/whoever is in charge. Get plates made up with his car's license number and you run a few sets of cameras with those plates on a vehicle.
But you have to be doing more than 150mph[1].
The cameras have to take 2 pictures. If you're going above 150 they only catch you on a single frame, which isn't enough to prosecute.
[1] Yes, I've tested this and yes, I still have my license.
You need a motorbike. 190+mph more like.
They don't work. Statistically, they have *absolutely no effect* on the numbers of killed or seriously injured in regions that are rolling them out. It's purely revenue generation.
Last year the number of accidents dropped by around 30% and the cameras were acclaimed as a massive success to all. Unfortunately this year the accident rate is up 100% and they are now saying oh yes we have peaks and troughs in the accident rates but of course the cameras are working.
It's clear that any effect on road safety that the cameras have is negligible.
That'd be Philips even.
i li psSelect?select=_SP4&java=on&choice=0
http://www.eur.lighting.philips.com/servlets/Ph
Blue's shorter wavelength.
Older fluorescent technologies maybe but the current crop of products in the shops come in different colours and shades of light.
Phillips for instance do a fluorescent bulb which they describe as warm white is the same shape and is only fractionally bigger than a normal bulb. Fits in a standard socket and lasts for, well, 5 years in my case.
The bulbs are still more expensive than normal ones but you save in buying replacements and in electricity costs.
Um, and you're saying that incandescents don't?
I've replaced all my regular bulbs with fluorescent bulbs and there's no perceptible flicker. They have little bits of electronics in the base of the bulb which stops them flickering.
Go read: http://www.fujilite.com/product-features.htm
They last longer too. Just had one fail, for the first time in 5 years. It was a bit of a shock, I can tell you. I'd forgotten all about buying replacement bulbs.
I think you're *all* religious fundamentalist nuts.
The more people and ISPs who start using software like Pyzor the more pointless spam becomes. It routes directly to a spam mailbox completely bypassing potential customers.
http://pyzor.sourceforge.net/
The more users it has, the more effective it becomes. Pyzor uses a central database of spam hashes to compare incoming mail against. If the hash of the body of the incoming mail matches an entry in the database then it's a spam. Discard it.
Sure someone will followup to say that they'll include random characters in each individual mail to change the hash values or they'll change parts of the message on each mail. Yes the authors are aware of this and the software already takes this into account.