I was thinking for more long-distance uses. If you're trying to shine light through a few miles of fiber, you want to pick the most transparent frequencies you have. I imagine that UV would at least be useful in shorter distances, such as within a building, I can't find good information on fiber transmission and attenuation vs. frequency and distance.
You're right, I think the article is way off the mark. I don't think there will be another viable packaged video disc format. The article makes no mention of possible use in fiber optics, the higher information density could allow much more information to be transmitted, assuming it is at all compatible with fiber.
Programmer? Not even, it doesn't take a programmer to install software. It's the PHB types that ask for software to be installed, they get money from Norton, etc. for installing trial and demo software, with an expectation that enough users will buy it to pay for the preload.
That's the thing, the federal laws are still in place and liable to be enforced at any time. When a Republican administration gets back in, they're very likely to start enforcing it again. If I were thinking of getting into that business, I wouldn't put any more money into it that couldn't get a complete return on investment in less than two years. There is no certainty that Obama will get re-elected and there's no point in being too invested that you can't get out quickly (or I suppose go underground quickly enough) when the pendulum swings again.
One problem is that the reflected, scattered light can still be very harmful, easily blinding. I think the light can be blocked the eye with special goggles, but there's bound to be mistakes even when testing it.
You can't get competition between cable companies in most places, because the cable company gets a government granted monopoly to provide services through that cable. At best, you get to have a choice between telco (also a monopoly) and cable, if you're really lucky, FIOS (another monopoly) and cable, though probably not FIOS, cable and telco as the FIOS providers are said to pull out the telco copper wires from the road to your home with only a notice about this buried in the fine print.
There are plenty of banks around, and credit unions too. I'd suggest staying away from the national banks if you want any kind of service and you want a minimum of run-around. National banks may seem cheaper or offer you better rates, but that has to come form somewhere, often they have higher rates and penalties, as well as reduced service.
There are choices for computers, though sometimes there isn't a choice if you need a very specific program, such is the nature of network effects. Those network effects are why there are only a handful of computer OS platforms available now.
I don't understand why the tests would allow students to bring in their own programmable calculators. It would seem that if calculators were needed, the test providers would have to supply blanked calculators so students couldn't bring in all the solutions and cheats into the room, hidden in memory somewhere.
Even more broadly, the engineering time they waste maintaining an undesired feature is time not spent making the product line better. So far, the MOTO Droid line isn't pulling the company back to profitability last I checked.
I thought GPL 3 forbade this kind of activity of preventing firmware changes, it undermines one major point of open source while still exploiting open source code. Maybe that language didn't make it into the final license.
If you "make it", you're probably making the money on live performances. For most bands, live performances isn't an easy life, living out of suitcase or in a rolling metal box. I bet the venue takes most of the money, unless you're such a big draw that you can command tickets several times that of a lesser band in the same venue.
A desktop OS squeezed down to a tablet is what Microsoft has already been doing on and off for more almost two decades. Please tell me where that has succeeded other than small niches, and please tell me why rehashing that failed model *again* is going to finally succeed. It just wasn't a product that sold millions.
Pork because it names a specific contractor. Heck, a Utah company providing motors for a Florida launch is probably bad logistics too. Other parts may also be pork on the use of existing technologies because certain contractors design and provide those parts too.
all taxpayers pay, but only the wealthier who can afford iPhones benefit)
You make it sound like it's the Jaguar owner's club or something like that. I don't see what's so prohibitively expensive about them that puts them out of reach of the middle class.
That said, most information you can put into a phone app can be done in a standard web site.
He spent almost a week laying out what, how and why, writing a couple of pages of structured and well-described suggestions.
It sounds like he did exactly what you suggest. I didn't see anything in the GP post that suggest that he was making demands, but rather, offering suggestions.
States have been wanting sales taxes for mail and phone order too, it's the same thing as web order, something comes in from out of state.
I don't mind it so much, but the states haven't bothered trying to harmonize their tax codes, what is and isn't taxable varies by state and that's the bitch of it all, if each product or product category has to have tailored check boxes, then that's going to be annoying. I'm not going to like having to deal with lots of tax-exempt forms, or writing a couple dozen more checks every year to pay these states, despite their lack of jurisdiction.
How do we know this? I thought he wasn't talking to anyone. One hypotheses is that he has some kind of grudge against several mathematicians. Another hypothesis was that he wasn't sufficiently being recognized for his talents. That one was put forth in the book Perfect Rigor.
Does he even have a job? How is it supposed to be noble to turn down money when he's being supported by his parents?
TV channels are easier to tune well with at least one "open" channel between transmitted channels.
As for the channels in question, I think you'll find maybe the digital channels may say they're in the 3-6 range, in reality, they aren't necessarily using the analog equivalent of that channel. My local channel "3" is actually assigned to digital channel 8, they keep the callsign and the number.
Headaches, incidentally, is a problem with all consumer home 3D TVs. They will give the vast majority of people a headache after 10 minutes. That's a fact!
If it's a fact, then it shouldn't be hard to back up that claim with something more reliable than an emphatic claim.
Making the weekend longer makes the outgoing packages pile up higher too. Monday's shipments can either have Sunday's and Monday's orders, or Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
As it is, domestic package mail is pretty inexpensive relative to other services. UPS and FedEx charge something like $12 or more for special Saturday delivery. That's two thirds of what UPS charges for a 1 lb. express package, USPS doesn't charge extra for Saturday delivery.
I think the battery life of an iPad is just fine. I charged it exactly a week ago and I still have 65% battery life left. I've used it for a few hours here and there and have not turned it off. There's a point when longer battery life further doesn't really add anything, it's not really a terrible inconvenience to charge a device every few days while sleeping.
Reading in the sunlight is supposed to be a selling point, but I've never read paper books in direct sunlight. I don't know why I'd read a Kindle in direct sunlight if I've never read a book in sunlight. eink screens really don't have much contrast (the maker's own specs say 6:1, LCDs easily get hundreds:1 without "dynamic contrast" trickery) and I find the eink page flip blink to be annoying.
Your first example would be germane if your comparison was with some small company that provides last-mile internet service, because a cellular provider's infrastructure is expensive and very spread out, a data center is far more manageable.
Unfortunately, when you get to be a top dog, they can't increase profits by growing as they used to, so they look for other ways, such as lowering costs. I think your suggestion is better, but Verizon has to please their stock holders than their subscribers.
I agree, the shop has to be brazenly lying about it, it's likely that store's policies and they deflect it by blaming Apple, obviously they're not going to be honest and say it's a seller's market. If it really was Apple's policies, we would have heard it from somewhere else too. The solution is to not shop at that store again.
I don't think most people fifty years from now would care to read an article whose topic would cover Twitter and its users. History buffs probably wouldn't mind looking up fad slang words. The article would probably obsolete itself just as quickly whether or not "tweet" is used. Really, I think the question should be who the audience is, how many people will read an article this week, and how many people will read said article this week fifty years from now. I don't think it makes much sense to make a clumsy reference to a Twitter message helps current readers for the sake of a handful of people fifty years from now.
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I was thinking for more long-distance uses. If you're trying to shine light through a few miles of fiber, you want to pick the most transparent frequencies you have. I imagine that UV would at least be useful in shorter distances, such as within a building, I can't find good information on fiber transmission and attenuation vs. frequency and distance.
You're right, I think the article is way off the mark. I don't think there will be another viable packaged video disc format. The article makes no mention of possible use in fiber optics, the higher information density could allow much more information to be transmitted, assuming it is at all compatible with fiber.
Programmer? Not even, it doesn't take a programmer to install software. It's the PHB types that ask for software to be installed, they get money from Norton, etc. for installing trial and demo software, with an expectation that enough users will buy it to pay for the preload.
That's the thing, the federal laws are still in place and liable to be enforced at any time. When a Republican administration gets back in, they're very likely to start enforcing it again. If I were thinking of getting into that business, I wouldn't put any more money into it that couldn't get a complete return on investment in less than two years. There is no certainty that Obama will get re-elected and there's no point in being too invested that you can't get out quickly (or I suppose go underground quickly enough) when the pendulum swings again.
One problem is that the reflected, scattered light can still be very harmful, easily blinding. I think the light can be blocked the eye with special goggles, but there's bound to be mistakes even when testing it.
You can't get competition between cable companies in most places, because the cable company gets a government granted monopoly to provide services through that cable. At best, you get to have a choice between telco (also a monopoly) and cable, if you're really lucky, FIOS (another monopoly) and cable, though probably not FIOS, cable and telco as the FIOS providers are said to pull out the telco copper wires from the road to your home with only a notice about this buried in the fine print.
There are plenty of banks around, and credit unions too. I'd suggest staying away from the national banks if you want any kind of service and you want a minimum of run-around. National banks may seem cheaper or offer you better rates, but that has to come form somewhere, often they have higher rates and penalties, as well as reduced service.
There are choices for computers, though sometimes there isn't a choice if you need a very specific program, such is the nature of network effects. Those network effects are why there are only a handful of computer OS platforms available now.
I don't understand why the tests would allow students to bring in their own programmable calculators. It would seem that if calculators were needed, the test providers would have to supply blanked calculators so students couldn't bring in all the solutions and cheats into the room, hidden in memory somewhere.
Even more broadly, the engineering time they waste maintaining an undesired feature is time not spent making the product line better. So far, the MOTO Droid line isn't pulling the company back to profitability last I checked.
I thought GPL 3 forbade this kind of activity of preventing firmware changes, it undermines one major point of open source while still exploiting open source code. Maybe that language didn't make it into the final license.
If you "make it", you're probably making the money on live performances. For most bands, live performances isn't an easy life, living out of suitcase or in a rolling metal box. I bet the venue takes most of the money, unless you're such a big draw that you can command tickets several times that of a lesser band in the same venue.
A desktop OS squeezed down to a tablet is what Microsoft has already been doing on and off for more almost two decades. Please tell me where that has succeeded other than small niches, and please tell me why rehashing that failed model *again* is going to finally succeed. It just wasn't a product that sold millions.
Pork because it names a specific contractor. Heck, a Utah company providing motors for a Florida launch is probably bad logistics too. Other parts may also be pork on the use of existing technologies because certain contractors design and provide those parts too.
all taxpayers pay, but only the wealthier who can afford iPhones benefit)
You make it sound like it's the Jaguar owner's club or something like that. I don't see what's so prohibitively expensive about them that puts them out of reach of the middle class.
That said, most information you can put into a phone app can be done in a standard web site.
Wait, from what the GP post describes:
He spent almost a week laying out what, how and why, writing a couple of pages of structured and well-described suggestions.
It sounds like he did exactly what you suggest. I didn't see anything in the GP post that suggest that he was making demands, but rather, offering suggestions.
States have been wanting sales taxes for mail and phone order too, it's the same thing as web order, something comes in from out of state.
I don't mind it so much, but the states haven't bothered trying to harmonize their tax codes, what is and isn't taxable varies by state and that's the bitch of it all, if each product or product category has to have tailored check boxes, then that's going to be annoying. I'm not going to like having to deal with lots of tax-exempt forms, or writing a couple dozen more checks every year to pay these states, despite their lack of jurisdiction.
How do we know this? I thought he wasn't talking to anyone. One hypotheses is that he has some kind of grudge against several mathematicians. Another hypothesis was that he wasn't sufficiently being recognized for his talents. That one was put forth in the book Perfect Rigor.
Does he even have a job? How is it supposed to be noble to turn down money when he's being supported by his parents?
TV channels are easier to tune well with at least one "open" channel between transmitted channels.
As for the channels in question, I think you'll find maybe the digital channels may say they're in the 3-6 range, in reality, they aren't necessarily using the analog equivalent of that channel. My local channel "3" is actually assigned to digital channel 8, they keep the callsign and the number.
Headaches, incidentally, is a problem with all consumer home 3D TVs. They will give the vast majority of people a headache after 10 minutes. That's a fact!
If it's a fact, then it shouldn't be hard to back up that claim with something more reliable than an emphatic claim.
Making the weekend longer makes the outgoing packages pile up higher too. Monday's shipments can either have Sunday's and Monday's orders, or Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
As it is, domestic package mail is pretty inexpensive relative to other services. UPS and FedEx charge something like $12 or more for special Saturday delivery. That's two thirds of what UPS charges for a 1 lb. express package, USPS doesn't charge extra for Saturday delivery.
I think the battery life of an iPad is just fine. I charged it exactly a week ago and I still have 65% battery life left. I've used it for a few hours here and there and have not turned it off. There's a point when longer battery life further doesn't really add anything, it's not really a terrible inconvenience to charge a device every few days while sleeping.
Reading in the sunlight is supposed to be a selling point, but I've never read paper books in direct sunlight. I don't know why I'd read a Kindle in direct sunlight if I've never read a book in sunlight. eink screens really don't have much contrast (the maker's own specs say 6:1, LCDs easily get hundreds:1 without "dynamic contrast" trickery) and I find the eink page flip blink to be annoying.
Your first example would be germane if your comparison was with some small company that provides last-mile internet service, because a cellular provider's infrastructure is expensive and very spread out, a data center is far more manageable.
Unfortunately, when you get to be a top dog, they can't increase profits by growing as they used to, so they look for other ways, such as lowering costs. I think your suggestion is better, but Verizon has to please their stock holders than their subscribers.
Seeing stuff like this causes me to wonder exactly how US corporations manage to function at all. Dumb luck is the only good answer I have.
Yay to DC for pulling a completely fictional number out of their ass. A billion dollars for 18 acres?
I agree, the shop has to be brazenly lying about it, it's likely that store's policies and they deflect it by blaming Apple, obviously they're not going to be honest and say it's a seller's market. If it really was Apple's policies, we would have heard it from somewhere else too. The solution is to not shop at that store again.
ITER is terribly expensive.
Europe's combined military budget for one year is 20 times the total cost of this project. Which has a better chance of creating lasting utility?
I don't think most people fifty years from now would care to read an article whose topic would cover Twitter and its users. History buffs probably wouldn't mind looking up fad slang words. The article would probably obsolete itself just as quickly whether or not "tweet" is used. Really, I think the question should be who the audience is, how many people will read an article this week, and how many people will read said article this week fifty years from now. I don't think it makes much sense to make a clumsy reference to a Twitter message helps current readers for the sake of a handful of people fifty years from now.