I've always found that disabling SSID broadcast is nothing but a false sense of security. It's going to do far more to block legitimate users than to keep out bad guys.
I'll go a step further..doc often breaks when you move it around, but it doesn't matter because everyone BELIEVES that it'll work anywhere. The reality doesn't matter much (in this case) only the perception of it.
Oh, I really like the idea of photo-electric cells.... no moving parts at all. Just a single sealed package that puts out heat and electricity. I'm guessing the lifespan would be limited by the cells, not the fuel source.
Have any size or weight to power ratios? Any idea how much waste heat to expect?
How much Americium-241 (for example) would it take to power a cell phone? At $1,500/gram it might easily turn out to be cost prohibitive.
Um... this license should only apply to their implementation, so we could create a new version from scratch that is licensed any way we want.
That is, unless there are there patents or other issues that get in the way. If my hopes/dreams/vague memories are correct, then the w3c has a policy to refuse to accept standards that are patent encumbered.
However, I haven't RTFA, so maybe I'm missing something here.
There are some fission designs that require active intervention to remain active, and have been in active production in Germany and South Africa.
My understanding is that these designs have been ignored in the US due to the costs to get approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commision are too high.
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Pebble_bed_reac to r
How much of that is in the US? My understanding is that they were a big suprise money maker for 3G phones when they were first introduced. However, as 3G phones have slowly started to make their delayed entrance into the US market everyone was licking their chops over the ringtones and other forms of easy money, but have been disappointed to learn that only games have done well.
The wired article says 40 BILLION for text messaging world wide. Another feature which is also not as big of a hit in the US. I know I'd use it more if I wasn't stuck with a pay-to-use plan.
A friend of mine was laid off from a Salt Lake valley company after 15 years as a sand bender. She went looking for work and all she could get was offers for 30k/yr, fsk you very much. That valley is devastated.
People just seem to naturally have fewer children when they have more to do. In one African village, the birth rate fell by 50% after a single TV was introduced.
Don't remember enough to find a link to the study again.
In general, the more developed the country, the lower the birthrate. And the higher the financial demographic, the lower the birthrate.
Why shoud TIVO be any different - no company can rest on its laurels, it'll just be left behind by its competitors, but the name will live on in consumer's minds. Perhaps its how we're built - we need a 'tag' to describe something.
My only problem with this is that TiVo isn't resting on it's Laurels. It really is a better product than the other boxes out there. However, consumers don't know enough to know the difference, and it's expensive to teach them.
If TiVo loses to the cable companies products, it won't be due to quality of the product, but because existing (and legal) monopolies were able to leverage that monopoly to kick TiVo out of the very market it created.
Significant correlation is usually very powerful tool for pointing out that there is a relationship. However, it's not proof and it's really bad at helping you to understand the relationship.
In relation to your ice cream / crime correlation.
I know that there has been significant research showing that high temperatures affect the number of violent crimes.
I would not suprise me to learn that high temperatures also help to trigger ice cream sales.
Thus the correlation between ice cream and crime was a clue towards understanding one of the factors behind crime. It was NOT straightforward, and one should never base a conclusion on the mere existince of a correlation.
However, if we have confidence in a weather model that shows how CO2 levels can cause an increase in the solar energy captured by a planetary system (we do), then a historical correlation between CO2 levels and temperature would strongly suggest (but not prove) that this model is significant in the weather system of the Earth.
I think the question Jhon is asking is very reasonable. It's also meaningful to say that if there is no archeological CO2 correlation, then CO2 levels might not be an important a player in overall temperature. However, this is not as strong an indicator, since we already know that there a numerous other factors.
My understanding was the Hydrogen will burn with an unusually wide variety of air mixtures (there is a chemistry term for this, partial pressure or some such)? And that much easier to get Hydrogen to burn than gasoline fumes and such. This property is both useful and dangerous.
The other problem explained to me is that a Hydrogen leak can burn with a flame that is close to invisible, meaning that you can just walk into it without understanding the danger you are in.
Also, it's harder to stop Hydrogen from leaking. This isn't so much a safety issue as an efficiency problem.
I used to have public/private passwords, but that never really fealt like a good solution to me.
I have eventually started using Password Safe (though there are a dozen tools like it).
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
I remember a couple of account passwords and one long pass phrase. For anything else, I have to open the Password app and copy/paste. The good news is that I have a LOT of distinct passwords that are all randomly generated. The bad news is that I have to have my laptop to do much of anything. And, of course, backups are critical.
People keep telling me that Aspect Oriented Programming is the next major step forward. I keep meaning to get around to learning more about it, but somehow I never do. Well, nothing deeper than a one paragraph overview.
My personal belief is that the next major steps forward are not in languages per-se, but in language and development tools. I suspect that new languages that are fundamentally similar, but without some of the hacks we've all learned to live with will be needed to get the most from these tools.
I was recently told that it's illegal for an adult to walk round in public without some form of government id such as a driver's license. I was in California at the time.
I have no idea if this is true, or (if true) which level of government is imposing this rule.
I'm not sure which is more disturbing to me. That I can't tell if it's true (and don't know how to find out), or that the US citizens I was speaking with considered it acceptable for citizens to be required to carry their 'papers' at all times.
Some online vendors charge local sales tax even if you are out of state. I believe that Apple is one such. Does this mean that I'm supposed to pay local AND remote sales tax?
I wonder if the noises are considered more annoying just because they are less familiar. With standard train sounds, you KNOW what it is, and you know you don't have to deal with it. You are already used to filtering it out.
In the States, the liability is one of the largest problems.
This is dramatically reduced because it has the name "Safety Device". Sometimes seat belts and/or air bags do more harm than good. However, nobody gets sued (well, very often) in these cases because it's a safety device.
Some of these devices already exist in 18 wheeler style vehicles, and have been shown to statistically reduce accidents. And these devices are active, will do things like apply the brakes and/or downshift on their own if the driver ignores the warnings.
I've read articles about how the truck companies are going for them, because the number of cases where the devices cause problems are fewer than the number of accidents they prevent. Thus their liability decreases. Because the trucking companies have big pockets, they were already a target (unlike automobile companies)
Even if practical, I don't think a self-driving vehicle could be sold yet due to liability. However, these "safety devices" do similar things and help us move towards self-driving vehicles, thus I'm all for them, even if they aren't really much safer.
If I remember correctly, there was a specific model that prompted that because it had a problem with the print head getting stuck. There were no safeties on the positioning motor which (if not stopped) would keep trying to move the head until it overheated and, well, caught fire.
I beleive that smoke from the drive belt was more common than actual fires.
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I've always found that disabling SSID broadcast is nothing but a false sense of security. It's going to do far more to block legitimate users than to keep out bad guys.
I'll go a step further. .doc often breaks when you move it around, but it doesn't matter because everyone BELIEVES that it'll work anywhere. The reality doesn't matter much (in this case) only the perception of it.
Or even use the tap to initiate a transfer through an internet link (through your cell phone, for example).
Oh, I really like the idea of photo-electric cells.... no moving parts at all. Just a single sealed package that puts out heat and electricity. I'm guessing the lifespan would be limited by the cells, not the fuel source.
Have any size or weight to power ratios? Any idea how much waste heat to expect?
How much Americium-241 (for example) would it take to power a cell phone? At $1,500/gram it might easily turn out to be cost prohibitive.
Um... this license should only apply to their implementation, so we could create a new version from scratch that is licensed any way we want.
That is, unless there are there patents or other issues that get in the way. If my hopes/dreams/vague memories are correct, then the w3c has a policy to refuse to accept standards that are patent encumbered.
However, I haven't RTFA, so maybe I'm missing something here.
There are some fission designs that require active intervention to remain active, and have been in active production in Germany and South Africa.
c to r
My understanding is that these designs have been ignored in the US due to the costs to get approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commision are too high.
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Pebble_bed_rea
How much of that is in the US? My understanding is that they were a big suprise money maker for 3G phones when they were first introduced. However, as 3G phones have slowly started to make their delayed entrance into the US market everyone was licking their chops over the ringtones and other forms of easy money, but have been disappointed to learn that only games have done well.
The wired article says 40 BILLION for text messaging world wide. Another feature which is also not as big of a hit in the US. I know I'd use it more if I wasn't stuck with a pay-to-use plan.
A friend of mine was laid off from a Salt Lake valley company after 15 years as a sand bender. She went looking for work and all she could get was offers for 30k/yr, fsk you very much. That valley is devastated.
Okay, I'll bite. What exactly is a "sand bender"?
So, how exactly did you manage to sell it?
Stock exchange systems make the process of locating a buying pretty invisible, but you still can't sell if there isn't someone who wants to buy.
Are there just people out there willing to take the gamble that it'll be worth something someday?
What really pisses me off more are the people that think it's okay to spam me using a service that I'm PAYING FOR.
Well, actually, you mentioned credit card statements, and that is one example of something I consider wrong.
A more recent example is ATT sending me spam text messages to my phone. That's simply wrong on so, so many levels.
But aren't some of those GPL helpers really important?
I thought there were a number of hooks that were simply no longer available (even by workaround) for non-GPL modules.
Why couldn't Gates just be non-evil in the first place.
Because SCO won't be around to much longer to keep us entertained.
Interesting point is that Jupiter also has rings. However, I don't think anybody knew that in 1968.
People just seem to naturally have fewer children when they have more to do. In one African village, the birth rate fell by 50% after a single TV was introduced.
Don't remember enough to find a link to the study again.
In general, the more developed the country, the lower the birthrate. And the higher the financial demographic, the lower the birthrate.
Why shoud TIVO be any different - no company can rest on its laurels, it'll just be left behind by its competitors, but the name will live on in consumer's minds. Perhaps its how we're built - we need a 'tag' to describe something.
My only problem with this is that TiVo isn't resting on it's Laurels. It really is a better product than the other boxes out there. However, consumers don't know enough to know the difference, and it's expensive to teach them.
If TiVo loses to the cable companies products, it won't be due to quality of the product, but because existing (and legal) monopolies were able to leverage that monopoly to kick TiVo out of the very market it created.
Significant correlation is usually very powerful tool for pointing out that there is a relationship. However, it's not proof and it's really bad at helping you to understand the relationship.
In relation to your ice cream / crime correlation.
I know that there has been significant research showing that high temperatures affect the number of violent crimes.
I would not suprise me to learn that high temperatures also help to trigger ice cream sales.
Thus the correlation between ice cream and crime was a clue towards understanding one of the factors behind crime. It was NOT straightforward, and one should never base a conclusion on the mere existince of a correlation.
However, if we have confidence in a weather model that shows how CO2 levels can cause an increase in the solar energy captured by a planetary system (we do), then a historical correlation between CO2 levels and temperature would strongly suggest (but not prove) that this model is significant in the weather system of the Earth.
I think the question Jhon is asking is very reasonable. It's also meaningful to say that if there is no archeological CO2 correlation, then CO2 levels might not be an important a player in overall temperature. However, this is not as strong an indicator, since we already know that there a numerous other factors.
My understanding was the Hydrogen will burn with an unusually wide variety of air mixtures (there is a chemistry term for this, partial pressure or some such)? And that much easier to get Hydrogen to burn than gasoline fumes and such. This property is both useful and dangerous.
The other problem explained to me is that a Hydrogen leak can burn with a flame that is close to invisible, meaning that you can just walk into it without understanding the danger you are in.
Also, it's harder to stop Hydrogen from leaking. This isn't so much a safety issue as an efficiency problem.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I used to have public/private passwords, but that never really fealt like a good solution to me.
I have eventually started using Password Safe (though there are a dozen tools like it).
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
I remember a couple of account passwords and one long pass phrase. For anything else, I have to open the Password app and copy/paste. The good news is that I have a LOT of distinct passwords that are all randomly generated. The bad news is that I have to have my laptop to do much of anything. And, of course, backups are critical.
People keep telling me that Aspect Oriented Programming is the next major step forward. I keep meaning to get around to learning more about it, but somehow I never do. Well, nothing deeper than a one paragraph overview.
My personal belief is that the next major steps forward are not in languages per-se, but in language and development tools. I suspect that new languages that are fundamentally similar, but without some of the hacks we've all learned to live with will be needed to get the most from these tools.
My theory was that if this is true, then it's one of those laws that almost never gets enforced.
I was recently told that it's illegal for an adult to walk round in public without some form of government id such as a driver's license. I was in California at the time.
I have no idea if this is true, or (if true) which level of government is imposing this rule.
I'm not sure which is more disturbing to me. That I can't tell if it's true (and don't know how to find out), or that the US citizens I was speaking with considered it acceptable for citizens to be required to carry their 'papers' at all times.
Some online vendors charge local sales tax even if you are out of state. I believe that Apple is one such. Does this mean that I'm supposed to pay local AND remote sales tax?
I wonder if the noises are considered more annoying just because they are less familiar. With standard train sounds, you KNOW what it is, and you know you don't have to deal with it. You are already used to filtering it out.
Nobody is that used to a maglev train sound yet.
Yes, No, Maybe?
In the States, the liability is one of the largest problems.
This is dramatically reduced because it has the name "Safety Device". Sometimes seat belts and/or air bags do more harm than good. However, nobody gets sued (well, very often) in these cases because it's a safety device.
Some of these devices already exist in 18 wheeler style vehicles, and have been shown to statistically reduce accidents. And these devices are active, will do things like apply the brakes and/or downshift on their own if the driver ignores the warnings.
I've read articles about how the truck companies are going for them, because the number of cases where the devices cause problems are fewer than the number of accidents they prevent. Thus their liability decreases. Because the trucking companies have big pockets, they were already a target (unlike automobile companies)
Even if practical, I don't think a self-driving vehicle could be sold yet due to liability. However, these "safety devices" do similar things and help us move towards self-driving vehicles, thus I'm all for them, even if they aren't really much safer.
If I remember correctly, there was a specific model that prompted that because it had a problem with the print head getting stuck. There were no safeties on the positioning motor which (if not stopped) would keep trying to move the head until it overheated and, well, caught fire.
I beleive that smoke from the drive belt was more common than actual fires.