There are already standard systems (pretty obsolete this days as GPS can be even attached to dogs) that use cell specific broadcasts to display your rough location on the home screen of the phone.
A very easy solution is to have all phones sold in US preconfigured to be subscribed a specific cell broadcast topic. If you don't want the alerts just unsubscribe with the phone's standard interface. No need for a special chip (oooh, I forgot that someone has to pay for the personal planes of large companies and decision makers).
Oh, and PoE is a lifesaver for anyone who has ever deployed IP phones.
If regular / cheap switches and routers would allow at least one PoE port it would be much easier than being forced to run the wires to the few PoE capable switches - and even those can power only 4-8 ports of a total of 16-24.
In most cases I end up adding a power brick next to the IP phones.
No shit? Most freshly graduated programmers are far worse than that.
I am senior programmer for a small software company and I've seen enough of both. If the candidate didn't code anything ever - job or hobby - it doesn't worth hiring.
In practice most of the businesses that need some form of recurring payments will store CC details. Why? Because most CC processors will not do that on their behalf, they just process the payment one-time.
Had to implement a system allowing irregular recurring payments and it was a f*ing nightmare. When investigating "how others do it" it turned out that everybody and their dog were storing CCs.
If I could do it with the very limited functions Java ME provides (just so I could write a WoW client for mobile phones:-) they could certainly do it for a PC or PS(P).
I am a native metric user but I had to work on some engineering projects that had formulas and constants in Imperial units (aerodynamics - trans-sonic domain).
Any idea how fun is converting pounds per square inch when raised at power 1.7something? After two of these we gave up and converted the formula and everything to metric...
The inner ear feels just the accelerations and the rotations - those are what makes one sick, not uniform speed (that may make you scared though).
I had really bad experiences with 3D movies and also I have simulator sickness. Not real life sickness though - no problem flying planes or doing crazy stuff - when the image and the accelerations are synchronized. Can't watch handheld camera movies or FPS games for more than about 5'.
I also don't enjoy most "spatial movies" based on moving the camera around - my brain firmly believes the surface of the screen is flat and just the image moves. Moderate success if I cover or close one eye depriving the brain of the main source of spatial information and having it to rely on alternatives.
The only 3D movies that didn't made me sick were Avatar and some russian ones I've seen some 25 years ago.
Exagerated commercial shit got so bad these days that I refuse to see 3D movies anymore.
These days the in-game downloader is required as changes are loaded dynamically. Whenever you enter an area there are two progress bars - one for loading objects in memory and one (the small one) for downloading essential area data.
An alternative would be to leave the launcher running until it downloads all zillion fragments (16GB or so) most of which you're never going to see. And repeat after every patch.
Working in telephony and VoIP for the last 8 years I don't remember seeing a VBR codec in actual use - ever.
At most silence detection is used but that has unpleasant side effects too.
I also find useless to save 2-3 bytes when the UDP+RTP overhead is 40 (plus at least 4 if SRTP is used).
I am very grateful to these bodies for making the standards freely available.
As for ANSI you may spend $300+ just to find out you need to spend 600 more:-(
You really don't know what the "slow neutrons" are all about, do you?
Fission of 235U is triggered by any kind of neutron, fast or slow. On the other hand fast neutrons are also absorbed by 238U which is prevalent (> 99% in natural uranium, > 95% in civil grade enriched uranium) turning them into 239U -> 239Np -> 239Pu. So to make sure enough of the neutrons are causing new fissions they have to be slowed down to thermal speeds when they will just bounce off the 238U nuclei. That's the job of the moderator - particularly of the hydrogen in it. Heavy water is preferred as it absorbs less neutrons so natural uranium can be used (typical for PWR). Normal water besides acting as moderator absorbs too many neutrons for the reactivity of a natural uranium reactor to remain close to 1.
Spontaneous fission happens all the time but it's relatively infrequent so as long as the reactivity of the reactor stays well below 1 any chain reaction dies quickly. One fission will produce on average less that one new fission. Yes, there are neutrons that are emitted later by secondary reactions but they account for just a tiny amount - important for stability (keeping the reactivity at exactly 1) but absolutely unimportant if the reactor is shut down or poisoned.
The bulk of the heat is caused not by fission but by decay or radioactive isotopes. That takes days to reduce to levels that can be dissipated by natural convection or conduction.
Even if the fission reaction is stopped immediately (all reactors can do that almost instantly) the accumulated fission products are going to release tremendous amounts of heat by decay over the next hours and days.
Living in Romania and knowing ARCA I can tell spending money is the norm here. As well as getting academic interesting results that will never be applied.
It's not a gravity well, it's a money black hole.
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There are already standard systems (pretty obsolete this days as GPS can be even attached to dogs) that use cell specific broadcasts to display your rough location on the home screen of the phone.
A very easy solution is to have all phones sold in US preconfigured to be subscribed a specific cell broadcast topic. If you don't want the alerts just unsubscribe with the phone's standard interface. No need for a special chip (oooh, I forgot that someone has to pay for the personal planes of large companies and decision makers).
Oh, and PoE is a lifesaver for anyone who has ever deployed IP phones.
If regular / cheap switches and routers would allow at least one PoE port it would be much easier than being forced to run the wires to the few PoE capable switches - and even those can power only 4-8 ports of a total of 16-24.
In most cases I end up adding a power brick next to the IP phones.
No shit? Most freshly graduated programmers are far worse than that. I am senior programmer for a small software company and I've seen enough of both. If the candidate didn't code anything ever - job or hobby - it doesn't worth hiring.
For the most extreme case see Tippler Cylinders.
In practice most of the businesses that need some form of recurring payments will store CC details. Why? Because most CC processors will not do that on their behalf, they just process the payment one-time. Had to implement a system allowing irregular recurring payments and it was a f*ing nightmare. When investigating "how others do it" it turned out that everybody and their dog were storing CCs.
If I could do it with the very limited functions Java ME provides (just so I could write a WoW client for mobile phones :-) they could certainly do it for a PC or PS(P).
I am a native metric user but I had to work on some engineering projects that had formulas and constants in Imperial units (aerodynamics - trans-sonic domain). Any idea how fun is converting pounds per square inch when raised at power 1.7something? After two of these we gave up and converted the formula and everything to metric...
The inner ear feels just the accelerations and the rotations - those are what makes one sick, not uniform speed (that may make you scared though). I had really bad experiences with 3D movies and also I have simulator sickness. Not real life sickness though - no problem flying planes or doing crazy stuff - when the image and the accelerations are synchronized. Can't watch handheld camera movies or FPS games for more than about 5'. I also don't enjoy most "spatial movies" based on moving the camera around - my brain firmly believes the surface of the screen is flat and just the image moves. Moderate success if I cover or close one eye depriving the brain of the main source of spatial information and having it to rely on alternatives.
The only 3D movies that didn't made me sick were Avatar and some russian ones I've seen some 25 years ago. Exagerated commercial shit got so bad these days that I refuse to see 3D movies anymore.
These days the in-game downloader is required as changes are loaded dynamically. Whenever you enter an area there are two progress bars - one for loading objects in memory and one (the small one) for downloading essential area data. An alternative would be to leave the launcher running until it downloads all zillion fragments (16GB or so) most of which you're never going to see. And repeat after every patch.
Working in telephony and VoIP for the last 8 years I don't remember seeing a VBR codec in actual use - ever. At most silence detection is used but that has unpleasant side effects too. I also find useless to save 2-3 bytes when the UDP+RTP overhead is 40 (plus at least 4 if SRTP is used).
All these have already failed when applied to mail - what makes you think they'll work for telephony?
I am very grateful to these bodies for making the standards freely available. As for ANSI you may spend $300+ just to find out you need to spend 600 more :-(
Each nicely wrapped in a contract stored in a hot place.
You really don't know what the "slow neutrons" are all about, do you? Fission of 235U is triggered by any kind of neutron, fast or slow. On the other hand fast neutrons are also absorbed by 238U which is prevalent (> 99% in natural uranium, > 95% in civil grade enriched uranium) turning them into 239U -> 239Np -> 239Pu. So to make sure enough of the neutrons are causing new fissions they have to be slowed down to thermal speeds when they will just bounce off the 238U nuclei. That's the job of the moderator - particularly of the hydrogen in it. Heavy water is preferred as it absorbs less neutrons so natural uranium can be used (typical for PWR). Normal water besides acting as moderator absorbs too many neutrons for the reactivity of a natural uranium reactor to remain close to 1. Spontaneous fission happens all the time but it's relatively infrequent so as long as the reactivity of the reactor stays well below 1 any chain reaction dies quickly. One fission will produce on average less that one new fission. Yes, there are neutrons that are emitted later by secondary reactions but they account for just a tiny amount - important for stability (keeping the reactivity at exactly 1) but absolutely unimportant if the reactor is shut down or poisoned. The bulk of the heat is caused not by fission but by decay or radioactive isotopes. That takes days to reduce to levels that can be dissipated by natural convection or conduction.
Even if the fission reaction is stopped immediately (all reactors can do that almost instantly) the accumulated fission products are going to release tremendous amounts of heat by decay over the next hours and days.
Living in Romania and knowing ARCA I can tell spending money is the norm here. As well as getting academic interesting results that will never be applied. It's not a gravity well, it's a money black hole.