They could when I plug in a standardized connector to an electrical recharging station, but even if they did, they can't know how efficiently I drive it.
Oh, sure they could. My car's computer tracks MPG, and it matches pretty closely with actual measurement. (For electrics just substitute Joules/furlong or something, as appropriate.)
If the charging station is smart enough to talk with the car and figure out what make and model it is, then it's already got sufficient communications to ask the car how you drive it.
Seriously, guys, why is this the only +5 post in the article?
Has the news media finally surpassed Slashdot in news-related facts to such an extent that there is no meaningful commentary which is attached to a story?
WTF?
Should I re-up my subscription to the local dead-trees rag?
Or, you know, he could put the microphone where it won't pick up noise from the speakers. Bar musicians can figure out where to set up their PA speakers and monitors to avoid feedback, I'd hope any/. reader could do the same...
Or, you know, he could realize that it doesn't work that way. Bar musicians avoiding room-reinforced resonance have a very different problem to solve. And they don't often get to deal with this by modifying speaker placement (because it's a bar and there just aren't many options). I'd hope any/. reader would know what this is not the same as killing echo, and would understand that the common fix for feedback just won't work for very latent, broadband echo.
Try it: Find a microphone. It can be good, cheap, directional, or omnidirectional. Most any microphone other than the noise cancelling sort will work for this demonstration (but those aren't suited for the sort of work the Asker is asking about, anyway). Find a digital delay (or download one). Place the microphone someplace where you think it "won't pick up noise from the speakers."
Set up your sound card and delay so that stuff from the microphone comes out of the speakers about 500-1000 ms later.
Talk to the microphone at videoconferencing distances -- arms length or so -- and listen with your ears. Try to move things around to get rid of the secondary echo without just turning the speakers down so far that they're mostly inaudible. After you fail (or find that the solution involves building an anechoic chamber),
(Disclaimer: I run sound for musicians in bars.)
Consumer-level echo cancellation isn't exactly new tech. It's a part of every full-duplex speakerphone that's worth using. It's a common solution for VOIP, and it's used on modern cell phones for the same reason.
Any/. reader should understand that this isn't trivial problem to solve.
Axis IP cameras are cheaper than Panasonic, and aren't as reliant upon IE running on specific versions of Windows.
(Disclaimer: I sell both.)
But: The problem with IP cameras is that you still need a computer-ish device to view them with. There are apps for something like an iPod Touch which can do it, but I have my doubts about them having good audio support.
And there won't be any echo cancellation happening, which is really rather needed if headsets aren't used for audio. (Nothing quite like hearing "Hey Dad!" echo over and over again with a second or so of latency as bounces back and forth across the country...)
So, it's going to need teleconferencing-specific software. My suggestion, therefore, is a cheap, used laptop at each end, preferably with a built-in camera. Several-years-old laptops are plenty fast enough to do this sort of work.
For software? Who knows... Try some of the obvious choices, and see if any are dumb enough to get the job done persistently, while being smart enough to get the things right that need gotten right (echo cancellation, for instance).
What happens to the water between the time it is drawn from a reservoir and filtered and the time it gets to the tap? What kind of machine does it go through? What is it and its pipes made of? What is it lubricated with? What were the machines washed with? How often do they clean the water tower? What halogens were intentionally introduced in the production of the water? How many complex hydrocarbon will leach out of the piping? They can't filter those out. Same with the plumbing in your house. What happens when the plumbing breaks down? You'd be safer going to San Bernardino and drinking kool-aid made with bottled RO water.
I had a friend who even ran X on top of OS/2, and didn't run OS/2 apps. Fail, fail.
Interesting.
It's worth noting, at this point, that my best experience with OS/2 was with Warp in text mode on a machine with very little RAM (8MB? It's been awhile...). Back then, browsing with Lynx was still a viable way to use the popular Web, folks still used FTP regularly, "chat" was ircII, forums were Usenet, the music retailer cdnow.com had an extremely functional telnet interface, and I still had a lot of MS-DOS software that I used. Text-mode worked great, ran most modern Unix-ish software with fewer issues than [pick a Linux distro] does today, and had REXX to play with in addition to perl and all the usual *nix goodies.
Things would be more variable on a local level, and more dependent on the weather. But otherwise, getting rid of subsidies would allow the true price of a product to be found by the market.
City folk would still be paying for farming, though. They'd just be paying more directly through an increase in the cost of foods, instead of indirectly through taxation.
Of course, if locally-grown food becomes too expensive, then imports will begin to look more attractive. Import tariffs would fix that problem neatly enough, though, if some manner of price control were deemed important...
Around here, the farmers tend to do pretty well. They generally hire Americans, things are generally harvested and handled by machines operated by well-paid Americans, and the machines are serviced locally by companies that also employ Americans who seem to be doing pretty well.
Now, we generally grow just soy, corn, and wheat around here (and lots of each), and all of those things are easily mechanized. Other areas that grow more hands-on crops (tomatoes, perhaps) might behave differently, but unlike you, I won't speak for them because I don't have any first-hand knowledge of them.
Where I come, farmers have money. Agriculture in these parts builds cities. Not the other way around.
I get 12Mb/1.5Mb from my ISP* over VDSL. It works fine, and it's what I was sold.
Some sites are slower, some are faster. A fast site has no trouble saturating the pipe with a single TCP stream, though, in either direction.
Torrents are fast, too. There's the whole "using so much bandwidth in one direction or the other that an ACK can't get through," but with reasonable settings in uTorrent, things are reasonably fast.
I call that good enough: By all appearances, my entire ISP's network is geared to support my high-speed whims, at least to their border links. What happens beyond that? Who cares -- it's the Internet. (Every time I run traceroute to diagnose a slow transfer, I find that it's not my ISP's fault, but someone far downstream.)
*: AT&T Uverse in NW Ohio, for whatever that's worth. It's completely likely that YMMV, and that things will be very different with this provider in different areas, in which case you're quite welcome to bitch all you want.
If I were, I might say that the academic value of the code you've written on company time is the company's, as well. I might suggest that you are, therefore, stealing. The cleverness of the code that you're reviewing was bought and paid for by the company that employed you at the time.
Now, again, I don't personally feel that it should be a problem. I've even taken software (quick scripts and the like -- I generally suck at coding proper) from job to job for the same reasons.
But I find myself asking myself about a hypothetical tool and die maker who leaves one job for another. With him, he takes a rough sketch of a special machine tool that he'd created for his previous employer, just so it's easier for him to remember how he came up with the design further down the road. To aid him academically, in otherwords.
And somehow, I find myself having a different opinion of the tool and die maker's act. It seems a lot more like proper theft, to me, than keeping a copy of some code snippets around.
I am not sure why I think this way, but I do.
So, I ask: If you, Joe Coder, were a tool and die maker instead of a software monkey, would it be OK to take an overview of your ideas with you when you switched jobs?
My old E36 BMW 325i, for instance, has a fair bit of negative camber specified for the front and the back.
Having driven the car for six years, I feel qualified to state that the tires seem to wear very evenly, even when using the non-directional, mount-any-way-you-like, so-soft-it's-almost-funny Blizzaks that I use in the winter.
They seem to last a good long time, too, compared to other cars that I've driven that have zero camber.
I've got a car battery, but I don't think it'll do the job unless you use it to crush their head. I do have a neon sign transformer handy, though. This, a couple of clip leads, and a pair of piercing needles should do the job.
To use a register of deeds, wouldn't you need to have an actual address to start with?
In my county in Ohio, I can look up properties by name, address, or just by selecting them from a map. The map also includes aerial photos of sufficient resolution to put Google Earth to shame.
It's all on the Web, and it's free. Google around for your county's auditor, and you'll probably find a very similar system.
it's as open-and-shut a case of copyright violation as if you stole a copy of a Hollywood blockbuster from a movie studio, duped it, and sold tickets to see it in your backyard.
Feh.
There's nothing here to suggest that they've stolen anything.
It's more like they've bought a legitimate copy of a Hollywood movie, duped it (so what?), and sold tickets to see it in their back yard.
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They could when I plug in a standardized connector to an electrical recharging station, but even if they did, they can't know how efficiently I drive it.
Oh, sure they could. My car's computer tracks MPG, and it matches pretty closely with actual measurement. (For electrics just substitute Joules/furlong or something, as appropriate.)
If the charging station is smart enough to talk with the car and figure out what make and model it is, then it's already got sufficient communications to ask the car how you drive it.
Seriously, guys, why is this the only +5 post in the article?
Has the news media finally surpassed Slashdot in news-related facts to such an extent that there is no meaningful commentary which is attached to a story?
WTF?
Should I re-up my subscription to the local dead-trees rag?
Or, you know, he could realize that it doesn't work that way. Bar musicians avoiding room-reinforced resonance have a very different problem to solve. And they don't often get to deal with this by modifying speaker placement (because it's a bar and there just aren't many options). I'd hope any /. reader would know what this is not the same as killing echo, and would understand that the common fix for feedback just won't work for very latent, broadband echo.
Try it: Find a microphone. It can be good, cheap, directional, or omnidirectional. Most any microphone other than the noise cancelling sort will work for this demonstration (but those aren't suited for the sort of work the Asker is asking about, anyway). Find a digital delay (or download one). Place the microphone someplace where you think it "won't pick up noise from the speakers."
Set up your sound card and delay so that stuff from the microphone comes out of the speakers about 500-1000 ms later.
Talk to the microphone at videoconferencing distances -- arms length or so -- and listen with your ears. Try to move things around to get rid of the secondary echo without just turning the speakers down so far that they're mostly inaudible. After you fail (or find that the solution involves building an anechoic chamber),
(Disclaimer: I run sound for musicians in bars.)
Consumer-level echo cancellation isn't exactly new tech. It's a part of every full-duplex speakerphone that's worth using. It's a common solution for VOIP, and it's used on modern cell phones for the same reason.
Any /. reader should understand that this isn't trivial problem to solve.
Axis IP cameras are cheaper than Panasonic, and aren't as reliant upon IE running on specific versions of Windows.
(Disclaimer: I sell both.)
But: The problem with IP cameras is that you still need a computer-ish device to view them with. There are apps for something like an iPod Touch which can do it, but I have my doubts about them having good audio support.
And there won't be any echo cancellation happening, which is really rather needed if headsets aren't used for audio. (Nothing quite like hearing "Hey Dad!" echo over and over again with a second or so of latency as bounces back and forth across the country...)
So, it's going to need teleconferencing-specific software. My suggestion, therefore, is a cheap, used laptop at each end, preferably with a built-in camera. Several-years-old laptops are plenty fast enough to do this sort of work.
For software? Who knows... Try some of the obvious choices, and see if any are dumb enough to get the job done persistently, while being smart enough to get the things right that need gotten right (echo cancellation, for instance).
I think you're missing the point: If the government would just get out of the business of governing, they wouldn't need servers to begin with.
What happens to the water between the time it is drawn from a reservoir and filtered and the time it gets to the tap? What kind of machine does it go through? What is it and its pipes made of? What is it lubricated with? What were the machines washed with? How often do they clean the water tower? What halogens were intentionally introduced in the production of the water? How many complex hydrocarbon will leach out of the piping? They can't filter those out. Same with the plumbing in your house. What happens when the plumbing breaks down? You'd be safer going to San Bernardino and drinking kool-aid made with bottled RO water.
And how is it that you'd be knowin' the price of single gramme baggies, now laddie?
Easy. Suppose they seize 1 kilo of product, and say it is worth $5,000.
To know the price in single-gram baggies, you just divide 5,000 by 1,000, and - voila! - the street price per gram.
(Begging the question FTW!)
Better idea: Let's stop imprisoning so many people.
I had a friend who even ran X on top of OS/2, and didn't run OS/2 apps. Fail, fail.
Interesting.
It's worth noting, at this point, that my best experience with OS/2 was with Warp in text mode on a machine with very little RAM (8MB? It's been awhile...). Back then, browsing with Lynx was still a viable way to use the popular Web, folks still used FTP regularly, "chat" was ircII, forums were Usenet, the music retailer cdnow.com had an extremely functional telnet interface, and I still had a lot of MS-DOS software that I used. Text-mode worked great, ran most modern Unix-ish software with fewer issues than [pick a Linux distro] does today, and had REXX to play with in addition to perl and all the usual *nix goodies.
Is that "fail," too?
I saw a TV on the side of a rural road the other day. WTF? Take it to Best Buy or the county recycling event, asshat.
Some places don't have a Best Buy or a county recycling event. In some rural areas, it can be downright difficult to get rid of a TV properly.
I'm not saying it's right. I'm just saying that, as things stand, that's how it is.
I tried to click some of the links on that page, but it seemed to insist that I needed to have Safari installed first.
So much for progress.
Pre-paid Visa cards are a cash-and-carry item at Wal-Mart. There is currently no ID verification required before they're usable.
I agree with your point.
I think we'd do just fine without subsidies.
Things would be more variable on a local level, and more dependent on the weather. But otherwise, getting rid of subsidies would allow the true price of a product to be found by the market.
City folk would still be paying for farming, though. They'd just be paying more directly through an increase in the cost of foods, instead of indirectly through taxation.
Of course, if locally-grown food becomes too expensive, then imports will begin to look more attractive. Import tariffs would fix that problem neatly enough, though, if some manner of price control were deemed important...
Around here, the farmers tend to do pretty well. They generally hire Americans, things are generally harvested and handled by machines operated by well-paid Americans, and the machines are serviced locally by companies that also employ Americans who seem to be doing pretty well.
Now, we generally grow just soy, corn, and wheat around here (and lots of each), and all of those things are easily mechanized. Other areas that grow more hands-on crops (tomatoes, perhaps) might behave differently, but unlike you, I won't speak for them because I don't have any first-hand knowledge of them.
Where I come, farmers have money. Agriculture in these parts builds cities. Not the other way around.
*shrug*
I get 12Mb/1.5Mb from my ISP* over VDSL. It works fine, and it's what I was sold.
Some sites are slower, some are faster. A fast site has no trouble saturating the pipe with a single TCP stream, though, in either direction.
Torrents are fast, too. There's the whole "using so much bandwidth in one direction or the other that an ACK can't get through," but with reasonable settings in uTorrent, things are reasonably fast.
I call that good enough: By all appearances, my entire ISP's network is geared to support my high-speed whims, at least to their border links. What happens beyond that? Who cares -- it's the Internet. (Every time I run traceroute to diagnose a slow transfer, I find that it's not my ISP's fault, but someone far downstream.)
*: AT&T Uverse in NW Ohio, for whatever that's worth. It's completely likely that YMMV, and that things will be very different with this provider in different areas, in which case you're quite welcome to bitch all you want.
I think this is fine, but I'm not a lawyer.
If I were, I might say that the academic value of the code you've written on company time is the company's, as well. I might suggest that you are, therefore, stealing. The cleverness of the code that you're reviewing was bought and paid for by the company that employed you at the time.
Now, again, I don't personally feel that it should be a problem. I've even taken software (quick scripts and the like -- I generally suck at coding proper) from job to job for the same reasons.
But I find myself asking myself about a hypothetical tool and die maker who leaves one job for another. With him, he takes a rough sketch of a special machine tool that he'd created for his previous employer, just so it's easier for him to remember how he came up with the design further down the road. To aid him academically, in otherwords.
And somehow, I find myself having a different opinion of the tool and die maker's act. It seems a lot more like proper theft, to me, than keeping a copy of some code snippets around.
I am not sure why I think this way, but I do.
So, I ask: If you, Joe Coder, were a tool and die maker instead of a software monkey, would it be OK to take an overview of your ideas with you when you switched jobs?
Lots of cars have negative camber.
My old E36 BMW 325i, for instance, has a fair bit of negative camber specified for the front and the back.
Having driven the car for six years, I feel qualified to state that the tires seem to wear very evenly, even when using the non-directional, mount-any-way-you-like, so-soft-it's-almost-funny Blizzaks that I use in the winter.
They seem to last a good long time, too, compared to other cars that I've driven that have zero camber.
YMMV.
Sorry about that.
I've got a car battery, but I don't think it'll do the job unless you use it to crush their head. I do have a neon sign transformer handy, though. This, a couple of clip leads, and a pair of piercing needles should do the job.
If I were talented enough to suck-start a shotgun, I'd have a couple of ribs removed and never leave the house.
FWIW. HAND.
Oh. I thought the GPS part was already covered by both TFA and TFS.
OP seemed to indicate that he had some different, scary insight to offer.
I guess not.
FTFY.
To use a register of deeds, wouldn't you need to have an actual address to start with?
In my county in Ohio, I can look up properties by name, address, or just by selecting them from a map. The map also includes aerial photos of sufficient resolution to put Google Earth to shame.
It's all on the Web, and it's free. Google around for your county's auditor, and you'll probably find a very similar system.
Wow, there's a lot of FUD there. From the link:
Things jhead can extract from an Exif jpeg file
*yawn*
Which part was I supposed to be scared of, again?
I'm hesitant to reply to this, AC, because I suspect you'll never read it at this point.
That being what it is, let me just say three things:
First, I'm really not sure what you're incoherently rambling on about.
Second, cellular telephones were never covered under part 15 of the FCC rules.
Third, *shrug*
Feh.
There's nothing here to suggest that they've stolen anything.
It's more like they've bought a legitimate copy of a Hollywood movie, duped it (so what?), and sold tickets to see it in their back yard.
Only the last point has any bearing.