The article claims that they check the antennas before and after each shift, so they would know as soon as one was missing, and give the bill to whoever had the car during that shift.
So, that must mean the bacon in question is falsifying reports, right? Probably a little more serious than sending the guy a bill for the part. Perhaps a criminal offense?
Damnit, I forgot the other point I was going to make.
Useful new technology has to replace or simplify some function, ideally; otherwise it has the challenge of persuading us that we need this entirely new thing.
These devices do replace older devices that do the exact same thing. Pedometers have been around for hundreds of years. What's new is that the things integrate with your cell phone and by extension the web. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The trouble with devices that claim to track your steps is they're so easily hoaxed by waving your arms around.
Several of my co-workers do the "fit bit" thing, and have a group. I've seen several of them attach the fitbit to a necklace and hang it from the rear view mirror in a car. They record lots of steps when you're driving around - especially when you've stopped at a red light and it's swinging like mad.
First, you're going to want a motor to point the dish at various satellites in the clarke belt. There's some free programming available on each sat, but not a single sat you're likely to want to use all the time. Info on the sats and where to point your dish is here: http://www.dishpointer.com/ You'll also want to make sure you at least have a Ka and Ku band capable LNB device on your dish. If you ever upgrade to a fullsize dish you can also pull in channels broadcasting in C band.
I eventually upgraded my dish to a 120cm model for better signal, but never got a fullsize dish. Like I said in the title I USED to have an FTA setup. IMO it was a pain in the ass. Hardly ever found anything I wanted to watch, and I spent countless hours setting things up and keeping them working. Good luck getting local anything. You're not going to be getting HBO or anything like that without some kind of pay service (or a hack). It was a constant hassle to scan for birds that I could pick up, scan for channels on that bird, then go and see what was on the bird.
You don't. Your field of vision through the back window is tiny compared to the field of vision of the camera.
I thought they were a stupid gimmick until I got a car with one. Now I curse every time I drive a car that doesn't have one, because backing up is a lot harder.
Agree completely. Backup cameras are awesome. The complainers here have most likely never used one. Fortunately for them, the DOT has their backs.
I once spun out during an autocross because I was driving a flappy-paddle automatic (instead of a manual like I'm used to) and it unexpectedly downshifted to first when I floored the gas.
Sounds to me like you require more practice (or maybe training) on how to drive an automatic. Just because you aren't able to use an automatic transmission properly doesn't mean they're fundamentally flawed.
Because, you know, physical keyboards are such an advancing field.... I can't imagine how awful keyboards would be with out BlackBerry's patented technology.
Advancing? Hardly, there are patents and so no advancement is possible.
You think a guy steeling that kind of cash would have gotten something other than a Honda Civic from England. He either has bad taste in cars or he wasn't squandering money quite as lavishly as this article leads you to believe.
I couldn't agree more. Unless he was really trying to impress a single mother of two in Japan.
Technically speaking, bitcoins are not financial instruments. Producing a bitcoin is effectively a gamble. So entirely bitcoin system is a gambling institution. And exchanges act as token brokers. In gambling terms, they are the house. I don't think casinos are treated as financial institutions though. And for anyone actually looking to regulate bitcoins, casinos are probably a better model. People can exchange chips among themselves anonymously. But if they want to exchange them at an "established" location, then they have to do it through a cashier acting as a broker. This is what exchanges are.
Except that they have "accounts" where they hold your money and do whatever they want with it in the meantime. It makes them much more like banks. Of course they go to great lengths to dispel that, since it would mean regulation and oversight.
Get rid of copper POTS and the regulation surrounding it. Enact new regulation requiring the same level of service along with low end data be provided over fiber to each home.
Just because copper as a medium is obsolete does not mean the necessity of communication service is obsolete.
Exactly. Did the developers make perfectly clear to the buyers what risks were involved? If so they're off the hook, if not...
Ditto on resale - did the fully-informed previous owners pass on the dire warnings to the new buyers? If not, then *they* are the ones on the hook for manslaughter.
This is America. Nobody's off the hook when a lawyer is involved. Ever.
I agree that self-publication on the web would probably generally be a good thing for authors and readers, but I can think of a few obstacles:
Marketing isn't easy or free
Nor is marketing necessary. I don't think I've seen a lot of marketing for books over the years. Sure, one or two here or there. You see more marketing for a single movie than you probably have in your entire life for books.
Ok, probably a stupid question here !
What is the point of an exchange in the bitcoin world ?
It's just a bank that accepts bitcoin. Bitcoin banks (aka exchanges) are still unregulated and underinsured except in China. Since most banks won't take bitcoin, you can't trade bitcoins for other currencies at those banks either. An exchange is necessary to do much with bitcoin since there are precious few places to spend a bitcoin directly now that silk road is defunct.
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Don't worry Ninja cat will distract them.
These lolcat pictures sure do help me focus on work!
And all these extreme political view posts, too!
they have uncovered evidence that he's actually a space alien from the planet plexnar 12.
The article claims that they check the antennas before and after each shift, so they would know as soon as one was missing, and give the bill to whoever had the car during that shift.
So, that must mean the bacon in question is falsifying reports, right? Probably a little more serious than sending the guy a bill for the part. Perhaps a criminal offense?
Who cares, motherboards still come with expansion slots? PCI 2-Serial/1-Parallel Port Host Controller Card $3.67 If you want a serial card, put one in.
The "revised" estimates were generated by the NRC in conjunction with the DOE and (wait...wait for it...) the Electric Power Research Institute.
Yep, they're all a bunch of goddamed hippifreak tree-huggin energy extinguishers.
Not only that, they also have bad breath and gingivitis.
Use pot/weed marajuana, the reason the feds have a cry baby fit over moonshine and pot, they are also a Damn good fuel.
It might make people actually WANT a power plant in their neighborhood.
"Wood is great for building and heating homes..."
Wood is TERRIBLE for heating homes. It is the absolute most inefficient way to heat.
Moreover, it's illegal in the USA. http://news.slashdot.org/story...
Didn't the US EPA recently place a total ban on heating homes with wood?
Related: http://news.slashdot.org/story...
So what exactly do the US researchers hope to achieve here?
Useful new technology has to replace or simplify some function, ideally; otherwise it has the challenge of persuading us that we need this entirely new thing.
These devices do replace older devices that do the exact same thing. Pedometers have been around for hundreds of years. What's new is that the things integrate with your cell phone and by extension the web. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The trouble with devices that claim to track your steps is they're so easily hoaxed by waving your arms around.
Several of my co-workers do the "fit bit" thing, and have a group. I've seen several of them attach the fitbit to a necklace and hang it from the rear view mirror in a car. They record lots of steps when you're driving around - especially when you've stopped at a red light and it's swinging like mad.
First, you're going to want a motor to point the dish at various satellites in the clarke belt. There's some free programming available on each sat, but not a single sat you're likely to want to use all the time. Info on the sats and where to point your dish is here: http://www.dishpointer.com/
You'll also want to make sure you at least have a Ka and Ku band capable LNB device on your dish. If you ever upgrade to a fullsize dish you can also pull in channels broadcasting in C band.
I eventually upgraded my dish to a 120cm model for better signal, but never got a fullsize dish. Like I said in the title I USED to have an FTA setup. IMO it was a pain in the ass. Hardly ever found anything I wanted to watch, and I spent countless hours setting things up and keeping them working. Good luck getting local anything. You're not going to be getting HBO or anything like that without some kind of pay service (or a hack). It was a constant hassle to scan for birds that I could pick up, scan for channels on that bird, then go and see what was on the bird.
your statement sums up the tea party. The government is spending money on stuff I don't understand, therefore waste.
To a teabagger, "stuff I don't understand" is almost everything except huntin' and killin'.
You don't. Your field of vision through the back window is tiny compared to the field of vision of the camera.
I thought they were a stupid gimmick until I got a car with one. Now I curse every time I drive a car that doesn't have one, because backing up is a lot harder.
Agree completely. Backup cameras are awesome. The complainers here have most likely never used one. Fortunately for them, the DOT has their backs.
I once spun out during an autocross because I was driving a flappy-paddle automatic (instead of a manual like I'm used to) and it unexpectedly downshifted to first when I floored the gas.
Sounds to me like you require more practice (or maybe training) on how to drive an automatic. Just because you aren't able to use an automatic transmission properly doesn't mean they're fundamentally flawed.
A lot of the world's problems could be solved by banning busybodies. ;-)
Read "by banging" busybodies...and though, eh, that could work.
That would probably only serve to create more busybodies!
Your data on the mig is inaccurate. http://www.nsc.org/news_resour... There are some more accurate figures for you, coward.
He was a Buddhists. So he's smiling from his position as a factory line worker in an iPhone plant.
I can't believe that got an +5 funny. As insightful a comment I've ever seen.
Because, you know, physical keyboards are such an advancing field.... I can't imagine how awful keyboards would be with out BlackBerry's patented technology.
Advancing? Hardly, there are patents and so no advancement is possible.
You think a guy steeling that kind of cash would have gotten something other than a Honda Civic from England. He either has bad taste in cars or he wasn't squandering money quite as lavishly as this article leads you to believe.
I couldn't agree more. Unless he was really trying to impress a single mother of two in Japan.
Technically speaking, bitcoins are not financial instruments. Producing a bitcoin is effectively a gamble. So entirely bitcoin system is a gambling institution. And exchanges act as token brokers. In gambling terms, they are the house. I don't think casinos are treated as financial institutions though. And for anyone actually looking to regulate bitcoins, casinos are probably a better model. People can exchange chips among themselves anonymously. But if they want to exchange them at an "established" location, then they have to do it through a cashier acting as a broker. This is what exchanges are.
Except that they have "accounts" where they hold your money and do whatever they want with it in the meantime. It makes them much more like banks. Of course they go to great lengths to dispel that, since it would mean regulation and oversight.
Get rid of copper POTS and the regulation surrounding it. Enact new regulation requiring the same level of service along with low end data be provided over fiber to each home.
Just because copper as a medium is obsolete does not mean the necessity of communication service is obsolete.
"Yup, got your GPS coordinates and have help on the way".
NO SERVICE
Exactly. Did the developers make perfectly clear to the buyers what risks were involved? If so they're off the hook, if not...
Ditto on resale - did the fully-informed previous owners pass on the dire warnings to the new buyers? If not, then *they* are the ones on the hook for manslaughter.
This is America. Nobody's off the hook when a lawyer is involved. Ever.
I agree that self-publication on the web would probably generally be a good thing for authors and readers, but I can think of a few obstacles:
Nor is marketing necessary. I don't think I've seen a lot of marketing for books over the years. Sure, one or two here or there. You see more marketing for a single movie than you probably have in your entire life for books.
He wants to fix income inequality by reducing the income of the middle class? I must be missing something important.
Ok, probably a stupid question here ! What is the point of an exchange in the bitcoin world ?
It's just a bank that accepts bitcoin. Bitcoin banks (aka exchanges) are still unregulated and underinsured except in China. Since most banks won't take bitcoin, you can't trade bitcoins for other currencies at those banks either. An exchange is necessary to do much with bitcoin since there are precious few places to spend a bitcoin directly now that silk road is defunct.