The problem with hydrogen is not that it's flammable (pure hydrogen is not very explosive) but that it's very hard to contain because of its small molecular size. Balloons would have to be made of expensive materials.
Actually the He atom is much smaller than the H2 molecule and difuses much easier. Helium difuses quickly through pretty much anything.
But even if they would accept a micro USB cable - direct or through an adaptor - the iThingies need a different charger than the standard used by everybody else:
Small devices that just suck 5V and don't look at data pins would charge from anything
iThingies charge only from Apple style chargers, a set of 4 resistors in the charger indicate maximum amperage
Anything else follows the USB chaging standard that shorts together the data pins and optionally uses 2 resistors in the charger to indicate maximum amperage if higher than 500mA
Since everybody and his dog seems to manufacture only Apple compatible chargers these days I ended up buying a 5V 2 x 1A Hama iThingie charger which I replaced resistors and turned into a charger of 2 x (anything but Apple).
In Europe (and most of Asia) we are blackmailed by the Russians over the price of natural gas so Diesel fuel is a much safer bet.
Methane has also the disadvantage of being difficult to store as you can't liquefy it at ordinary temperatures like propane.
I wonder how many of those people you give the cards to will just be upset that you didn't give them cash and try to sell or trade the cards for drugs/alcohol/cigarettes.
Not only WP8 implements just a subset of WinRT it is also incompatible with old WP7 apps so developers need at least to make some adjustments and rebuild their apps - it's a new OS, not an upgrade.
Such a ship can be loaded with politicians and lawyers and send to colonize the cold, hard vacuum.
Hopefully a post-singularity entity will lob a black hole after the ship. Or two, just to be sure.
A classic suspend-to-disk to a SSD partition or file is more efficient as the operating system knows which memory area needs to be saved and which not (not in use, disk cache, code, bus mastering areas).
At resume time the operating system needs to reinitialize the hardware and check anyway if the memory contents is still valid. Not that much for an embedded system with components welded to the board - but then you won't have memory as modules.
Blah blah.
All nice, elegant and safe until management decides this field NEEDS to be red, and underlined, and this one too, and this one - so let's store it in database as HTML... oh, wait, what field was it?
Can you extract text from a pdf and keep basic layout formatting?
There are basically two very different PDF formats:
- Classic (generated by most print-to-PDF programs)
- Flowing (specially designed for book reading)
The classic format is essentially Postscript with absolute positioning of text fragments in page. There are many programs that try to guess the original document flow with better or worse success. Even worse, some PDF documents are scanned so short of OCR and its own problems there is no text and little formatting.
The flowing format is similar to HTML so - supposing the author and application don't keep you out by DRM - you can extract the formatted text quite nicely.
I usually have around 5-6 book samples on my Kindle application (running on a 1st gen. 7" Galaxy Tab) which take 2-3 hours to read them all wherever I happen to be. Much more convenient than going in a bookstore on purpose.
Of those I normally buy 2-3 which keep me fed for a weekend or two. These days I buy a printed book perhaps no more than one a month.
All my recent phones and tables (Nokia, Apple, Samsung) have Bluetooth, WiFi, mobile data. Only one of my computers (a laptop whose LCD died some years ago) had Blutooth on-board.
There's also the very complex way of understanding and negotiating Bluetooth profiles. Each and every feature that is defined over Bluetooth has multiple variations and quirks and can (and do) fail in mysterious ways and are pretty hard to debug. Not to mention that some of them need specific support in the hardware.
OTOH WiFi and IP networks in general just move packets. And they're pretty standard and interoperable.
The extortion part is however illegal. It also proves the domain registration was done with intention to commit an illegal activity.
Hope this guy rots in jail - there are too many "security researchers" in extortion business of a kind or another.
Actually the MVNOs don't have the detailed location information and don't need to. The location is held at the MSCs of the (non-virtual) operator where the subscriber is registered. The MVNO needs only return the MSC - which it has to know else calls won't get through.
On the other hand the emergency calls are usually having LocationInformation identifying the MSC which would speed up things a little by skipping one (for a call) or two (for a SMS) network queries. Some operators are even sending the LocationInformation for regular calls (I don't understand why...)
No. Point to point microwave technology is not helpful to get connectivity out to lots of people. The dishes need to be perfectly aligned to each other since the signal is deliberately kept within a very narrow beam. Microwave doesn't bounce off things like the lower frequencies used for wifi.
Alignment of dishes is also needed to preserve a good signal / noise ratio needed by high efficiency modulation. The alternative would be to increase the transmitter power a lot with the downside of leaking interference all around.
I assume special antenna construction is part of this high-speed technology too.
Actually both CE and FCC certify a single device at a time. That hub (or more likely switch these days) may have survived the EM interference when connected to something else.
A computer with all its accessories connected will typically not pass the CE / FCC tests even if each part individually would pass. Even more, not all possible configurations are tested.
In a test session the manufacturer will usually connect a non-standalone device to a product known to have best EMI immunity and low emissions. They will also carefully select an operating mode most likely to pass the test (lower clock frequency, minimum programs loaded). Did some of those myself:-(
I know that you got frustrated by the SMS issue but having it repeat "forever" (that is, 20-30 times) has nothing to do with Google. It can occasionally happen with a regular text message sent from one phone to another in the network of the same operator. Some Femtocells appear to cause the bug - that not being an excuse for the mobile operators and their vendors.
Mobile phones sold in the last 7 years or so don't even have CSD or Fax support anymore. No regrets - they were low performance and a PITA to support. The packet switched data is superior in all ways.
On the other hand about 95% of all telephone calls (fixed or mobile) use at least on one segment virtual circuits over various TDM transports, even if in some parts of the world the SS7 signaling has migrated to the SCTP/IP based SIGTRAN. Very few calls are converted directly to VoIP or other packet based voice transports.
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The problem with hydrogen is not that it's flammable (pure hydrogen is not very explosive) but that it's very hard to contain because of its small molecular size. Balloons would have to be made of expensive materials.
Actually the He atom is much smaller than the H2 molecule and difuses much easier. Helium difuses quickly through pretty much anything.
Since everybody and his dog seems to manufacture only Apple compatible chargers these days I ended up buying a 5V 2 x 1A Hama iThingie charger which I replaced resistors and turned into a charger of 2 x (anything but Apple).
In Europe (and most of Asia) we are blackmailed by the Russians over the price of natural gas so Diesel fuel is a much safer bet.
Methane has also the disadvantage of being difficult to store as you can't liquefy it at ordinary temperatures like propane.
I wonder how many of those people you give the cards to will just be upset that you didn't give them cash and try to sell or trade the cards for drugs/alcohol/cigarettes.
... all of them?
Not only WP8 implements just a subset of WinRT it is also incompatible with old WP7 apps so developers need at least to make some adjustments and rebuild their apps - it's a new OS, not an upgrade.
Nah, wine is already tainted...
Such a ship can be loaded with politicians and lawyers and send to colonize the cold, hard vacuum.
Hopefully a post-singularity entity will lob a black hole after the ship. Or two, just to be sure.
A classic suspend-to-disk to a SSD partition or file is more efficient as the operating system knows which memory area needs to be saved and which not (not in use, disk cache, code, bus mastering areas).
At resume time the operating system needs to reinitialize the hardware and check anyway if the memory contents is still valid. Not that much for an embedded system with components welded to the board - but then you won't have memory as modules.
Blah blah.
All nice, elegant and safe until management decides this field NEEDS to be red, and underlined, and this one too, and this one - so let's store it in database as HTML... oh, wait, what field was it?
Want the really bad news? One human brain isn't big enough to know all there is to know.
Why is that so bad news? I'm open to improvements :-)
My Galaxy Tab P1000 (1st edition) has the annoying rounded square backgrounds.
My Galaxy SII on the other hand has regular icons with transparent backround you can see the wallpaper through.
Can you extract text from a pdf and keep basic layout formatting?
There are basically two very different PDF formats:
The classic format is essentially Postscript with absolute positioning of text fragments in page. There are many programs that try to guess the original document flow with better or worse success. Even worse, some PDF documents are scanned so short of OCR and its own problems there is no text and little formatting.
The flowing format is similar to HTML so - supposing the author and application don't keep you out by DRM - you can extract the formatted text quite nicely.
I usually have around 5-6 book samples on my Kindle application (running on a 1st gen. 7" Galaxy Tab) which take 2-3 hours to read them all wherever I happen to be. Much more convenient than going in a bookstore on purpose.
Of those I normally buy 2-3 which keep me fed for a weekend or two. These days I buy a printed book perhaps no more than one a month.
So if you drop it from orbit (well, have to de-orbit it) it wil be very very dry?
At least it's a dog, not a nuke.
All my recent phones and tables (Nokia, Apple, Samsung) have Bluetooth, WiFi, mobile data. Only one of my computers (a laptop whose LCD died some years ago) had Blutooth on-board.
There's also the very complex way of understanding and negotiating Bluetooth profiles. Each and every feature that is defined over Bluetooth has multiple variations and quirks and can (and do) fail in mysterious ways and are pretty hard to debug. Not to mention that some of them need specific support in the hardware.
OTOH WiFi and IP networks in general just move packets. And they're pretty standard and interoperable.
In Europe you get at least 2G signal pretty much anywhere you can reach by car. Tunnels are exceptions but someone would notice you there.
Also emergency calls are handled differently by phones and cells. An 112 call may pass through where a regular call cannot.
The extortion part is however illegal. It also proves the domain registration was done with intention to commit an illegal activity.
Hope this guy rots in jail - there are too many "security researchers" in extortion business of a kind or another.
Here's your invisible pink unicorn: --><--
Can't you see it?
Actually the MVNOs don't have the detailed location information and don't need to. The location is held at the MSCs of the (non-virtual) operator where the subscriber is registered. The MVNO needs only return the MSC - which it has to know else calls won't get through.
On the other hand the emergency calls are usually having LocationInformation identifying the MSC which would speed up things a little by skipping one (for a call) or two (for a SMS) network queries. Some operators are even sending the LocationInformation for regular calls (I don't understand why...)
No. Point to point microwave technology is not helpful to get connectivity out to lots of people. The dishes need to be perfectly aligned to each other since the signal is deliberately kept within a very narrow beam. Microwave doesn't bounce off things like the lower frequencies used for wifi.
Alignment of dishes is also needed to preserve a good signal / noise ratio needed by high efficiency modulation. The alternative would be to increase the transmitter power a lot with the downside of leaking interference all around.
I assume special antenna construction is part of this high-speed technology too.
Actually both CE and FCC certify a single device at a time. That hub (or more likely switch these days) may have survived the EM interference when connected to something else.
:-(
A computer with all its accessories connected will typically not pass the CE / FCC tests even if each part individually would pass. Even more, not all possible configurations are tested.
In a test session the manufacturer will usually connect a non-standalone device to a product known to have best EMI immunity and low emissions. They will also carefully select an operating mode most likely to pass the test (lower clock frequency, minimum programs loaded). Did some of those myself
I know that you got frustrated by the SMS issue but having it repeat "forever" (that is, 20-30 times) has nothing to do with Google. It can occasionally happen with a regular text message sent from one phone to another in the network of the same operator. Some Femtocells appear to cause the bug - that not being an excuse for the mobile operators and their vendors.
Neutrinos are also generated in vast numbers by the fission reactors of the submarines that would most likely benefit from this communitation method.
;-)
Somehow I don't believe sending Morse code by rapidly turning on and off the reactor is a feasable way of communication
Does anyone understand how brains work?
Mobile phones sold in the last 7 years or so don't even have CSD or Fax support anymore. No regrets - they were low performance and a PITA to support. The packet switched data is superior in all ways.
On the other hand about 95% of all telephone calls (fixed or mobile) use at least on one segment virtual circuits over various TDM transports, even if in some parts of the world the SS7 signaling has migrated to the SCTP/IP based SIGTRAN. Very few calls are converted directly to VoIP or other packet based voice transports.