Not sure I see the relevance, though. Should libraries be shut down because they cut into Amazon's profit? Ridiculous.
Commercial radio is so god-awful here, all I listen to is CBC 1 (no commercials, mostly interviews and talk programs, news). Sure beats the alternative of 60% commercials, 40% of the same twenty songs repeated and dumb DJs hurr durring.
Powered USB, as a proprietary variant of USB, was developed by IBM, NCR, and FCI/Berg but is not endorsed by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF).[1][2] IBM, who owns the patents to Powered USB,[3][4] charges a licensing fee for its use.[5]
Doesn't sound too surprising to me.
I'm pretty sure one of the Thinkpads I had in the past had this port, though. Can't seem to find anything on Google about that being true, though.
Absolutely, I agree. Warships, definitely. I'm just saying the Titanic and other commercial ocean-liners were not very vital to radio development, the way I see it.
Not really sure how the sea part, nor the titanic part is relevant.
I'd say the bulk of the advances in radio were military, and general commercial use of radio. Ships benefited too, but I really don't see them as being the real cause for innovation.
Standardisation though, yeah, I'll give them that. Accidents tend to lead to that. Good thing too.
I think most of those are also forbidden in the US.
We've got another one though... drug testing is generally not allowed in Canada (exceptions for things like heavy machinery operators [incl. professional drivers], probably cops and judges, etc.)
I'm not sure how far they can stretch the hazardous duty clause though. Does someone writing code for something mission critical count? Who defines mission critical?
Anyway, better still avoid idiots tagging you in photos with bong-hits in the background.
Metallic silver isn't toxic, unless you're a bacterium, fungus, or virus. Some silver compounds are though.
It's still not a good idea to ingest it though, as you can get argyria, which is just plain weird. (It's something like the goldfinger treatment... but more silver).
T-series Thinkpads were pretty hot stuff in the IBM days. Light, fast, brick-shithouse construction, and only came in business black - flat black at that, no rounded shiny. Easy maintenance and full service manuals were available... IBM has a bloody part number on every piece of everything they make; it's almost like they actually designed the things for ease of maintenance. Almost everything else was twice the weight, creaky sloppy plastic with no battery life.
IBM did make you pay for it, though...
I don't have any experience with the recent/lenovo models, though, nor the newest apple offerings. I'd hope current stuff continues that legacy, though I have my doubts about that. Guess this isn't much of an answer then.
The people weren't. The government was complicit with the US plans though.
Greenland (via Denmark) has been a nuclear free zone since the 50's.
When a nuke-loaded B-52 crashed at Thule AFB (Greenland) in the late 60's, there was a shit-storm. The US said it was a one time diversion, etc...
In the 90's the truth came out about the above crash, about how armed B52's were there regularly, there were warhead stocks there, etc, and there was a pretty big shitstorm about it.
The military burns money on outdated stuff all the time.
Here, starting in the late 50's, they made a line of pulse radars across Canada, roughly 100-200mi north of the US border (somewhat further north in the east, though). Some stations weren't even operational until they were already obsolete (mid 60's, obsoleted by Soviet ICBMs). There was a fair bit of US funding, but Canada paid some and did most of the manning.
The best part is... They kept manning some of them until the fall of the Soviet Union, despite being outdated by the time of construction, and completely useless by the 70's. (Not to mention the much more capable DEW line had come online decades before then, too).
I remember hearing a story from one of the guys that worked at a station through the 70's. He was an electronics technician and was maintaining the radar units - replacing vacuum tubes, and the like (I did mention this stuff was obsolete, right?). Some of the military-procured replacement tubes were imported from the USSR - the same USSR that the radars were allegedly protecting the US from. (Not protecting Canada, of course. The pinetree line was too far south to give much of a warning for most Canadian cities).
Pretty comical stuff, if you don't think about how much it cost... when you do, it's just sad.
The only snake I have with thermal receptors is a little python.
He usually has pretty good aim, even in the dark. However, after he squeezes the prey for a few minutes... it often seems like it's too cold, and he has a very hard time finding the rodent. My heat-pit-less snakes never have this problem - maybe their smell is considerably better, to compensate? Or their physical (touch) heat sensing is better. Hmm.
Not sure if that's common, or if he's just extra special, though...
A python has a bunch of heat pits. Rattlers (pit vipers) only have a big one on either side of their face, I think it's supposed to be 'higher resolution', but I don't remember now. Seems pretty wild that two entirely unrelated snakes both evolved the same exotic technology, with very different implementations, out of nothing. Neat stuff!
Not going to hope for much here, seeing as Monsanto already owns the government.
I'm looking forward to a day when living things cannot be patented - especially things which can self-proliferate in a natural setting. I might need to go to another planet to achieve this, unfortunately.
Neat... Nurses in my province start at around that wage, and make more like 80k after some years.
They also get double pay on overtime, etc, so senior nurses can pull some decent coin...
This gives me second thoughts about engineering...:-(
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We have to remember that the mobile market is in its infancy and Apple and Google are the only ones poised for growth in this market. Just imagine what its going to be like in 3 or 4 years?
That's a goofy statement. 4 years ago Nokia and RIM were on top of the world, what makes you think that Google and Apple won't see the same fate?
I think it is far from infancy... closer to saturation.
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The CBC is government funded.
Not sure I see the relevance, though. Should libraries be shut down because they cut into Amazon's profit? Ridiculous.
Commercial radio is so god-awful here, all I listen to is CBC 1 (no commercials, mostly interviews and talk programs, news). Sure beats the alternative of 60% commercials, 40% of the same twenty songs repeated and dumb DJs hurr durring.
I seem to recall the Vatican stumbling upon a decent amount of gold during WWII, also.
The cheapest prepaid nokias here (since.. I don't know, 10 years I'd think) have web browsers. Maybe no 3G data (only GPRS), but they are capable.
Now, the providers like to charge insanity like 5 cents a kB on prepaid, though. That's the problem, not the phone.
The Soviets didn't attempt to put nukes in Cuba until someone put them in Turkey.
The US brought that on themselves, entirely. USSR was just maintaining the arms race, to neutralise the advantage the US gained in Turkey.
Powered USB, as a proprietary variant of USB, was developed by IBM, NCR, and FCI/Berg but is not endorsed by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF).[1][2] IBM, who owns the patents to Powered USB,[3][4] charges a licensing fee for its use.[5]
Doesn't sound too surprising to me.
I'm pretty sure one of the Thinkpads I had in the past had this port, though. Can't seem to find anything on Google about that being true, though.
Only true for very small values of V. (they're an inline 4).
Writing this comment on three 13" 640x480 monitors with 4 bit colour.
I hauled them out of a dumpster.
Absolutely, I agree. Warships, definitely. I'm just saying the Titanic and other commercial ocean-liners were not very vital to radio development, the way I see it.
Not really sure how the sea part, nor the titanic part is relevant.
I'd say the bulk of the advances in radio were military, and general commercial use of radio. Ships benefited too, but I really don't see them as being the real cause for innovation.
Standardisation though, yeah, I'll give them that. Accidents tend to lead to that. Good thing too.
It would be if .999 posts were canada based also.
Argh, that isn't even english.
Damn shame about the lack of a physical keyboard, though.
The knack.
It's a rare condition characterized by an extreme intuition about all things mechanical and electrical... and utter social ineptitude.
I know a few others with this diagnosis. varying amounts of all three, of course.
Nice in theory, but when hard times come, people end up prostituting their souls, if nothing else.
It gets more problematic when there are less employers that don't do this, as well.
I think most of those are also forbidden in the US.
We've got another one though... drug testing is generally not allowed in Canada (exceptions for things like heavy machinery operators [incl. professional drivers], probably cops and judges, etc.)
I'm not sure how far they can stretch the hazardous duty clause though. Does someone writing code for something mission critical count? Who defines mission critical?
Anyway, better still avoid idiots tagging you in photos with bong-hits in the background.
Metallic silver isn't toxic, unless you're a bacterium, fungus, or virus. Some silver compounds are though.
It's still not a good idea to ingest it though, as you can get argyria, which is just plain weird. (It's something like the goldfinger treatment... but more silver).
I presume slashdot ate your unicode, as *grams* of Hg per litre wouldn't be very healthy.
What was the unit supposed to be? Micrograms?
T-series Thinkpads were pretty hot stuff in the IBM days. Light, fast, brick-shithouse construction, and only came in business black - flat black at that, no rounded shiny. Easy maintenance and full service manuals were available... IBM has a bloody part number on every piece of everything they make; it's almost like they actually designed the things for ease of maintenance. Almost everything else was twice the weight, creaky sloppy plastic with no battery life.
IBM did make you pay for it, though...
I don't have any experience with the recent/lenovo models, though, nor the newest apple offerings. I'd hope current stuff continues that legacy, though I have my doubts about that. Guess this isn't much of an answer then.
The people weren't. The government was complicit with the US plans though.
Greenland (via Denmark) has been a nuclear free zone since the 50's.
When a nuke-loaded B-52 crashed at Thule AFB (Greenland) in the late 60's, there was a shit-storm. The US said it was a one time diversion, etc...
In the 90's the truth came out about the above crash, about how armed B52's were there regularly, there were warhead stocks there, etc, and there was a pretty big shitstorm about it.
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The military burns money on outdated stuff all the time.
Here, starting in the late 50's, they made a line of pulse radars across Canada, roughly 100-200mi north of the US border (somewhat further north in the east, though). Some stations weren't even operational until they were already obsolete (mid 60's, obsoleted by Soviet ICBMs). There was a fair bit of US funding, but Canada paid some and did most of the manning.
The best part is... They kept manning some of them until the fall of the Soviet Union, despite being outdated by the time of construction, and completely useless by the 70's. (Not to mention the much more capable DEW line had come online decades before then, too).
I remember hearing a story from one of the guys that worked at a station through the 70's. He was an electronics technician and was maintaining the radar units - replacing vacuum tubes, and the like (I did mention this stuff was obsolete, right?). Some of the military-procured replacement tubes were imported from the USSR - the same USSR that the radars were allegedly protecting the US from. (Not protecting Canada, of course. The pinetree line was too far south to give much of a warning for most Canadian cities).
Pretty comical stuff, if you don't think about how much it cost... when you do, it's just sad.
Not sure if you're trolling, or actual cancer. Eeeeevil.
The only snake I have with thermal receptors is a little python.
He usually has pretty good aim, even in the dark. However, after he squeezes the prey for a few minutes... it often seems like it's too cold, and he has a very hard time finding the rodent. My heat-pit-less snakes never have this problem - maybe their smell is considerably better, to compensate? Or their physical (touch) heat sensing is better. Hmm.
Not sure if that's common, or if he's just extra special, though...
A python has a bunch of heat pits. Rattlers (pit vipers) only have a big one on either side of their face, I think it's supposed to be 'higher resolution', but I don't remember now.
Seems pretty wild that two entirely unrelated snakes both evolved the same exotic technology, with very different implementations, out of nothing. Neat stuff!
I wonder if this trick works on pythons?
Not going to hope for much here, seeing as Monsanto already owns the government.
I'm looking forward to a day when living things cannot be patented - especially things which can self-proliferate in a natural setting. I might need to go to another planet to achieve this, unfortunately.
The diesel market in the US is pretty limited, unfortunately.
Neat... Nurses in my province start at around that wage, and make more like 80k after some years.
They also get double pay on overtime, etc, so senior nurses can pull some decent coin...
This gives me second thoughts about engineering... :-(
We have to remember that the mobile market is in its infancy and Apple and Google are the only ones poised for growth in this market. Just imagine what its going to be like in 3 or 4 years?
That's a goofy statement. 4 years ago Nokia and RIM were on top of the world, what makes you think that Google and Apple won't see the same fate?
I think it is far from infancy... closer to saturation.