There's talk that we might get electricity sometime next year!
Canada has many great places for data centers. How do I know? Because we have lots of data centers up here. Not that Dropbox needed to actually put one up here. They just needed to put our accounts on their Irish servers too. We've got excellent connections to Europe.
This is the use of the logs held by the phone company which show what cell tower your phone connected to and when. It can locate you to within a specific area during a period of time (or at least your SIM).
According to that logic then all of your web browsing is open to police capture without a warrant. Everything you download is captured in logs on a web server somewhere so you are saying it's fine for the police to look at them, no warrant required?
You can transfer the connection information from another device. The Withings scale does this. You connect to it via Bluetooth and it sends the Wi-Fi credentials over after asking for your permission.
I was wondering about that. It's been a number of years since I've had to worry about configuring Apache but when I did it was for a government department that had a fair number of virtual hosts. Most of then didn't have HTTPS so they were all grouped onto one IP address and used a virtual host to configure them. But if they all needed to be on HTTPS and you still can't use a virtual host for configuration then I can see that being a huge pain for them. The web configuration isn't too bad but it would involve another department to order the external IP addresses, the network group to configure them, set up the firewall rules, and switches, and the sysadmins to set up the servers with the new internal IP addresses. Not that the work itself is very difficult but when you factor in all of the forms that needed to be filled in (they were very big on ITIL) plus meetings and scheduling in when the work could be done it would take quite a while to do this project.
I heard about it on the CBC Radio program called Spark a few years ago. Here's a link to a story from 2011. I don't know if it's still the same today or not.
Many libraries have e-books available for loans. The publishers love this. They charge a fortune (somewhere near $100) for a book and with the DRM it has a limited number of loans (either 24 or 26). Once it's been loaned out that number of times the library has to buy another license for the book. The theory behind this is that each time the book is loaned out it is a lost sale. Of course this is complete BS.
But the question is what happens to it when it does break. You don't want a bunch of extra shards of material being added as projectiles in a collision. One of the features of safety glass is that when it breaks there aren't (or many) pointy edges created.
Not that hard. Off the top of my head Linux, open source software, Wikipedia, and the Web. All have made a big impact on society. Those GPS and social networking apps are quite meaningful when they are helping people to find one another in disaster areas.
You want an AI that can make you a lot of money playing games like poker so that you can play the games you want to. Just as long as not a lot of other people have the AI.
Since I use on average 12kWh per day over the course of a year I would only save about $1 a day even if I transferred all of my electricity use from peak use to off peak use. Of course my peak use is only about a quarter of my actual use (40% of my cost) so my savings would be much less. That's using the 8 cent difference between peak and off peak that's coming into effect in Ontario in May.
Think I'll look into a ground source heat pump. It'll cost a lot more (especially to drill the holes since I'm in a suburb) but I'll get rid of the expense of my A/C and my natural gas heating and hot water tank. The efficiency of the new furnace should cover the pump.
Create a plugin for a browser so that when you come across a page that has mixed content it finds out the contact information for the site and sends them a message how stupid they are automatically. Stop bugging me with warnings since I can't do anything about it. It's time to inconvenience the bad developer who made the page until they fix it.
So instead of going through and changing your pages to use https:/// they want you to go through your pages and add a meta tag. (Yes I did read that there is an option to set it at the server level.)
If your whole ability to farm in the region depends on bringing water from ever further away or draining the underground resources maybe it's a sign that you really haven't picked the best spot to build your farm.
The problem is that the developers haven't had a chance to work on the actual device yet except for a limited number of cases. They have been developing on a simulator trying to guess how it's going to feel and respond on the actual watch. Once they get their hands on the watch then you will see the apps will improve.
Having said that I don't have plans to make apps for the watch or even to buy one. I just don't see what it gives me. Yes, for some people it will be handy but in my particular case I don't see the use.
Unfortunately the majority of trees that we've planted are a monoculture meant to grow quickly and be harvested again for either pulp or timber. I've seen the result of clear cutting on the hills on Vancouver Island and it's terrible. Nothing living was left. Everything was brown with no green at all. Granted this was about twenty years ago but I doubt that things have changed except that they have gotten more efficient at it.
the employee that left a week before this announcement to another job that paid $50K.:) We'll never hear if that actually happened if that person is smart.
Now in addition to getting websites popping up windows that ask you to subscribe to their email they are going to be sending you notifications asking you to do the same. (And it's not pop-up windows which I have turned off but some HTML or CSS that comes up which the ad blockers don't stop. I probably don't want to subscribe but I never will know if you never give me the chance to read the article on your site because you block it out asking me to subscribe!
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There's talk that we might get electricity sometime next year!
Canada has many great places for data centers. How do I know? Because we have lots of data centers up here. Not that Dropbox needed to actually put one up here. They just needed to put our accounts on their Irish servers too. We've got excellent connections to Europe.
Well, once the driver/overseer is gone then there will be job opening up because of this. The full service gas station will come back!
If you do your updates through iTunes then you don't need as much free space on your device.
This is the use of the logs held by the phone company which show what cell tower your phone connected to and when. It can locate you to within a specific area during a period of time (or at least your SIM).
According to that logic then all of your web browsing is open to police capture without a warrant. Everything you download is captured in logs on a web server somewhere so you are saying it's fine for the police to look at them, no warrant required?
You can transfer the connection information from another device. The Withings scale does this. You connect to it via Bluetooth and it sends the Wi-Fi credentials over after asking for your permission.
I was wondering about that. It's been a number of years since I've had to worry about configuring Apache but when I did it was for a government department that had a fair number of virtual hosts. Most of then didn't have HTTPS so they were all grouped onto one IP address and used a virtual host to configure them. But if they all needed to be on HTTPS and you still can't use a virtual host for configuration then I can see that being a huge pain for them. The web configuration isn't too bad but it would involve another department to order the external IP addresses, the network group to configure them, set up the firewall rules, and switches, and the sysadmins to set up the servers with the new internal IP addresses. Not that the work itself is very difficult but when you factor in all of the forms that needed to be filled in (they were very big on ITIL) plus meetings and scheduling in when the work could be done it would take quite a while to do this project.
I don't miss that job at all.
I heard about it on the CBC Radio program called Spark a few years ago. Here's a link to a story from 2011. I don't know if it's still the same today or not.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol...
Many libraries have e-books available for loans. The publishers love this. They charge a fortune (somewhere near $100) for a book and with the DRM it has a limited number of loans (either 24 or 26). Once it's been loaned out that number of times the library has to buy another license for the book. The theory behind this is that each time the book is loaned out it is a lost sale. Of course this is complete BS.
Should they start rolling out the trampoline?
But the question is what happens to it when it does break. You don't want a bunch of extra shards of material being added as projectiles in a collision. One of the features of safety glass is that when it breaks there aren't (or many) pointy edges created.
Just put more pink on the book covers.
Not that hard. Off the top of my head Linux, open source software, Wikipedia, and the Web. All have made a big impact on society. Those GPS and social networking apps are quite meaningful when they are helping people to find one another in disaster areas.
You want an AI that can make you a lot of money playing games like poker so that you can play the games you want to. Just as long as not a lot of other people have the AI.
Of course it would be liquid mercury. Now I'd be surprised if they found solid mercury down there!
Since I use on average 12kWh per day over the course of a year I would only save about $1 a day even if I transferred all of my electricity use from peak use to off peak use. Of course my peak use is only about a quarter of my actual use (40% of my cost) so my savings would be much less. That's using the 8 cent difference between peak and off peak that's coming into effect in Ontario in May.
Think I'll look into a ground source heat pump. It'll cost a lot more (especially to drill the holes since I'm in a suburb) but I'll get rid of the expense of my A/C and my natural gas heating and hot water tank. The efficiency of the new furnace should cover the pump.
Create a plugin for a browser so that when you come across a page that has mixed content it finds out the contact information for the site and sends them a message how stupid they are automatically. Stop bugging me with warnings since I can't do anything about it. It's time to inconvenience the bad developer who made the page until they fix it.
So instead of going through and changing your pages to use https:/// they want you to go through your pages and add a meta tag. (Yes I did read that there is an option to set it at the server level.)
Yeah, I put an old frigate out on the curb for recycling last year and they wouldn't take it. The guy left a nasty note about it being over 35 kg.
If your whole ability to farm in the region depends on bringing water from ever further away or draining the underground resources maybe it's a sign that you really haven't picked the best spot to build your farm.
The problem is that the developers haven't had a chance to work on the actual device yet except for a limited number of cases. They have been developing on a simulator trying to guess how it's going to feel and respond on the actual watch. Once they get their hands on the watch then you will see the apps will improve.
Having said that I don't have plans to make apps for the watch or even to buy one. I just don't see what it gives me. Yes, for some people it will be handy but in my particular case I don't see the use.
Unfortunately the majority of trees that we've planted are a monoculture meant to grow quickly and be harvested again for either pulp or timber. I've seen the result of clear cutting on the hills on Vancouver Island and it's terrible. Nothing living was left. Everything was brown with no green at all. Granted this was about twenty years ago but I doubt that things have changed except that they have gotten more efficient at it.
the employee that left a week before this announcement to another job that paid $50K. :) We'll never hear if that actually happened if that person is smart.
Now in addition to getting websites popping up windows that ask you to subscribe to their email they are going to be sending you notifications asking you to do the same. (And it's not pop-up windows which I have turned off but some HTML or CSS that comes up which the ad blockers don't stop. I probably don't want to subscribe but I never will know if you never give me the chance to read the article on your site because you block it out asking me to subscribe!
Wouldn't one of those stud finders be easier than drilling a bunch of holes in the wall?