GPS are primarily transmit only satellites, which helps tremendously with weight, power and complexity issues. Also, they still have the down side of being line of sight.
The GP post has a point about the "emergency" ability of phones. Hell, even satellite service is probably profitable at $0.20/text message. I'd probably pay an extra $40 up front (As phone hardware) for the ability to send a text from anywhere for $0.20-0.25 as an option, as long as it didn't add appreciably to the weight or battery life.
Air resistance is most certainly non-negligible. Max-Q on a vehicle is a pretty serious design point, and it normally comes at 10-14km altitude for large vehicles, where the atmospheric pressure (And hence the drag force) is less than a quarter of what it would be at ground level.
Remember, to orbit, you're going to need somewhere near 7000m/s at orbital insertion for LEO, and that's after losing all that speed due to drag and potential energy gain. Getting back into the atmosphere is a thermal nightmare at 7000m/s, going fast enough to hit that number when you're fired from a cannon at 1 atm is going to be real exciting!
Not until they start trading commercially developed CNC path programs for the parts.
Anyone can make their own music and movies, it just turns out that you get a much more polished product that doesn't take dozens or hundreds (or more) hours of your own time.
The question will be come whether sharing or selling the digital reverse-engineered program you feed to your 3D printer is legal. Physical items are generally not copyrightable, and I believe selling copies of patents (which describe HOW to make an item) is also legal. Now, if a CNC path is simply a set of descriptive data describing a physical object, it may also fall outside of a "creative work." That kind of stuff should clog the courts for a while...if this every takes off. How many people are going to drop $400 and several hundred hours of time to make personal replacement parts?
Which means that the rest of us will be paying taxes to support the government for Zuck's lack. Which mean, effectively, we'll be paying higher taxes to support his causes. Make me all warm and tingly inside. Just like pinworm.
It's a fundamental problem I have with charitable giving in the US. The "value" you donate gets taken off your gross income, which reduces your taxes.
Say what you will about taxes, but by reducing your tax liability by $1, you've not changed the amount it takes to run the country, and have effectively raised everyone elses taxes to compensate for it.
I think the govenrnment should step in against these IP infringers, fine them each $500 Billion (that's not much more than 1k/device/patent, which seems low based on other recent IP judgements for copyright infringement), and call it good.
None of this annoying individual corps sue another corp - let the government be the police and the fine recipient. That way we can piss of everyone and make up for the unfunded tax cut extension. (For those thinking this is for international companies, I think each government can levy fines for the IP registered in their own countries - they all need a little help these days).
This is true of every carrier I've ever had. Everything is peachy until you have a problem. That's when you find out that EVERYONE has the worst customer service in the world.
Moral of the story: figure it out yourself or throw the company away and start fresh.
Or more appropriately, when the sun varies from it's current output by more than about 10%, running our electrical devices will no longer be in the top ten list of problems facing humanity.
Hold on there, genius. Have you ever been in a house that does not have natural gas service? I have a relatively modest house (for US standards - 1600SF, plus a full basement). Not only do I have two 30A/240V breakers (clothes dryer and hot water heater), my oven is on a 50A/240V circuit. If that wasn't enough, my HVAC system uses a 40A/240 breaker and an 80A/240 breaker to heat and cool my house. That's really not out of the ordinary.
Practically any small modern house will have 200A service. Most older homes will have 70-150A service. An "average" sized, all electric modern home (2000 or later) will likely have two 200A panels. Will it use 96kW? No, not likely, but to avoid putting high drain circuits together you need that.
Really the challenge for the power companies will be during heating times with electric svc heating. In the summer, the cooling load during the day will look a lot like the car charging load with a rapid-charger - and that will happen mostly at night. We'll probably see a shift to more places with time-of-use metering. That way you'll pay 15-25c/kWh during "peak," and 3-7c/kWh during "off peak". You're car charger will end up on a timer just like the hot water heater. You'll end up with cheap power if you can charge off-peak, and the powerco will get a more consistent demand. And consistent demand is what makes them money.
One word: Netflix Four words: Netflix in multiple rooms
Get that service happening in HD, and you're going to want a high peaking line, especially if you are running VoIP and a cloud data service.
I rarely complain about my 3Mb connection, but I've been backing up my "stuff" to the cloud (First SpiderOak, now LiveDrive) and it takes for fucking ever to get those services set up with the smallest of datasets (80-100GB, not really a large amount of data for anyone with a digital camera).
Remember - it's less about the rate*2.6E6 seconds/month total capacity, and more about getting your stuff done/transferred NOW, without impacting the other services you use. I'd gladly take a 500GB cap (about 2Mb service) with a 150Mb rate over a 6Mb rate with no cap.
I think I've read about 4-5 articles, plus the press release, and it doesn't say that there is no USB terminal, or that it won't have one when it ships in (February/April) 2011. There are a lot of specs left out, and they (Acer) seemed very careful to show as little as possible about the tablet.
Except for the existence and likely delivery date, I'm guessing that a lot is subject to change.
Apple may use this information, as long as it is in a form that does not personally identify you, to improve our products or to provide services or technologies to you.
So, if they violate this, that would be a breach of contract, yes?
No, there's no unattended hole in the fence. If you're going to hand over control of anything to another party you need to set instructions.
FWIW, rent-a-cops and servers have a lot in common when it comes to making intelligent decisions. The only difference is that the servers are consistent and don't have "friends" they bend the rules for without you knowing.
You're a few years behind. MS Office works great on Win and OSX, makes PDFs straight from "save as" dialog, and costs less than half a day's employee cost (often north of $75/hr, burdened) - which is barely enough to show them that 90% of their stuff sill work as usual, and that the other 10% either doesn't exist or works differently/is incompatible with all the legacy documentation they have.
As for worrying about someone going to a shop with linux on the desktop (the only place where Office doesn't exist natively), the linux fanbois have been touting for years that you can run practically anything under wine, with the right tweaks, right?
Linus for file services, hell yes. OO for the desktop; only if it's a from-scratch operation, everybody is working for free, and you have no startup capital.
On the contrary - restaurant owners love this system. Wait staff that perform poorly get axed, or get others to do those parts of their jobs for them. That's why they're wait staff, and not bus boys. If you want to work, you get it done.
In return, the owners get to pay them $2/hr. They're effectively paying less than 10-15% of what real, trained, customer-interaction employees would cost. That in itself is enough to make them deal with the other problems.
You're misinformed about how the internet works. The requesting browser _asks_ for content based on a URL. The server provides that content based on the permissions set in the server.
Imagine if you hired a security firm to work the gate at your private party, and told them that you had a bunch of people coming the party, but to only let those people in who came to the gate and asked to come in.
People you didn't know came to the gate, asked to get in, and YOUR security firm let them in based on your instructions. Who's fault is is that people you don't know got in the gate?
There was no hacking, no downed or cut fence. Everybody came in through the door, though they may have not taken the same road to get there as others. Even more importantly, they were let in by the security guard at the front. If you can't hand out tickets, or have the guard check IDs of of a guest list, it's YOUR problem for being an idiot.
That's right - rockets. The old model rocket hobby is actually alive and well. They still have all the classics, but as they get older, the rockets get bigger and more complex now - with multiple recovery stages, and more and more can be fitted with digital cameras.
Once they hit 7th grade, if they really like it, there's a national competition (TARC - Team America Rocketry Challenge, rocketcontest.org) that has several thousand dollars in prize money.
Regardless, there's a lot of excitement in launches. They even have "micro" versions now, which can be flown on small fields - even in moderate backyards.
I generally know not to trust the technical savvy, honesty or intelligence of anyone who uses a yahoo.com address. I guess I can add facebook to the list.
What I want to know if it can run Linux, and then switch to Android in tablet mode. (Or, for me, Windows, and then switch to Android mode, since all my software is Win-centric).
I can see this as a potential win if you really need a keyboard for some things, but would want the tablet factor for others. This might have been on my wish list last year before I purchased an acer mini-laptop (11.6" Timeline), save for the weak processor.
I'm torn, as the specks make it look pretty weak for running full Win7, and experience tells me that the touch interface with Windows is going to be a real bear. Still, the dock and ease of having a keyboard for "work" or slate for couch surfing might be nice.
I guess it will come down to the software, which is where it will ultimately fail. What makes the iPad/Android Tablets so useful is the finger-centric UI. It's what I hated about the older windows phones (which were built for a stylus and very difficult to manipulate with a fat finger).
Immelt and GE happen to believe that climate change is a real, serious, and urgent problem, and that both GE and America (regardless of whether the administration is Democratic or Republican) can benefit if GE takes an aggressive role in being part of the solution.
You had me right up until the point that they cared about the environment for the environment's sake. What they do care about is the perception that they care, because all the focus groups in the marketing division said they want to support companies which are green. That, and GE makes a lot of the turbines and generator components that make electricity...the demand for which will go up with EV adoption.
I'm convinced that GE doesn't give a rat's ass which party is in power, just as long as they get the benefit of whatever legislation or policies are put into place. They're looking out for #1. I have GE stock (everybody with an index fund does), and they're doing a relatively environmentally positive thing here, so I'm okay with it, regardless of their actual motive.
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GPS are primarily transmit only satellites, which helps tremendously with weight, power and complexity issues. Also, they still have the down side of being line of sight.
The GP post has a point about the "emergency" ability of phones. Hell, even satellite service is probably profitable at $0.20/text message. I'd probably pay an extra $40 up front (As phone hardware) for the ability to send a text from anywhere for $0.20-0.25 as an option, as long as it didn't add appreciably to the weight or battery life.
Air resistance is most certainly non-negligible. Max-Q on a vehicle is a pretty serious design point, and it normally comes at 10-14km altitude for large vehicles, where the atmospheric pressure (And hence the drag force) is less than a quarter of what it would be at ground level.
Remember, to orbit, you're going to need somewhere near 7000m/s at orbital insertion for LEO, and that's after losing all that speed due to drag and potential energy gain. Getting back into the atmosphere is a thermal nightmare at 7000m/s, going fast enough to hit that number when you're fired from a cannon at 1 atm is going to be real exciting!
Not until they start trading commercially developed CNC path programs for the parts.
Anyone can make their own music and movies, it just turns out that you get a much more polished product that doesn't take dozens or hundreds (or more) hours of your own time.
The question will be come whether sharing or selling the digital reverse-engineered program you feed to your 3D printer is legal. Physical items are generally not copyrightable, and I believe selling copies of patents (which describe HOW to make an item) is also legal. Now, if a CNC path is simply a set of descriptive data describing a physical object, it may also fall outside of a "creative work." That kind of stuff should clog the courts for a while...if this every takes off. How many people are going to drop $400 and several hundred hours of time to make personal replacement parts?
Which means that the rest of us will be paying taxes to support the government for Zuck's lack. Which mean, effectively, we'll be paying higher taxes to support his causes. Make me all warm and tingly inside. Just like pinworm.
It's a fundamental problem I have with charitable giving in the US. The "value" you donate gets taken off your gross income, which reduces your taxes.
Say what you will about taxes, but by reducing your tax liability by $1, you've not changed the amount it takes to run the country, and have effectively raised everyone elses taxes to compensate for it.
I think the govenrnment should step in against these IP infringers, fine them each $500 Billion (that's not much more than 1k/device/patent, which seems low based on other recent IP judgements for copyright infringement), and call it good.
None of this annoying individual corps sue another corp - let the government be the police and the fine recipient. That way we can piss of everyone and make up for the unfunded tax cut extension. (For those thinking this is for international companies, I think each government can levy fines for the IP registered in their own countries - they all need a little help these days).
This is true of every carrier I've ever had. Everything is peachy until you have a problem. That's when you find out that EVERYONE has the worst customer service in the world.
Moral of the story: figure it out yourself or throw the company away and start fresh.
Well played.
*golf clap*
Or more appropriately, when the sun varies from it's current output by more than about 10%, running our electrical devices will no longer be in the top ten list of problems facing humanity.
Hold on there, genius. Have you ever been in a house that does not have natural gas service? I have a relatively modest house (for US standards - 1600SF, plus a full basement). Not only do I have two 30A/240V breakers (clothes dryer and hot water heater), my oven is on a 50A/240V circuit. If that wasn't enough, my HVAC system uses a 40A/240 breaker and an 80A/240 breaker to heat and cool my house. That's really not out of the ordinary.
Practically any small modern house will have 200A service. Most older homes will have 70-150A service. An "average" sized, all electric modern home (2000 or later) will likely have two 200A panels. Will it use 96kW? No, not likely, but to avoid putting high drain circuits together you need that.
Really the challenge for the power companies will be during heating times with electric svc heating. In the summer, the cooling load during the day will look a lot like the car charging load with a rapid-charger - and that will happen mostly at night. We'll probably see a shift to more places with time-of-use metering. That way you'll pay 15-25c/kWh during "peak," and 3-7c/kWh during "off peak". You're car charger will end up on a timer just like the hot water heater. You'll end up with cheap power if you can charge off-peak, and the powerco will get a more consistent demand. And consistent demand is what makes them money.
One word: Netflix
Four words: Netflix in multiple rooms
Get that service happening in HD, and you're going to want a high peaking line, especially if you are running VoIP and a cloud data service.
I rarely complain about my 3Mb connection, but I've been backing up my "stuff" to the cloud (First SpiderOak, now LiveDrive) and it takes for fucking ever to get those services set up with the smallest of datasets (80-100GB, not really a large amount of data for anyone with a digital camera).
Remember - it's less about the rate*2.6E6 seconds/month total capacity, and more about getting your stuff done/transferred NOW, without impacting the other services you use. I'd gladly take a 500GB cap (about 2Mb service) with a 150Mb rate over a 6Mb rate with no cap.
I think I've read about 4-5 articles, plus the press release, and it doesn't say that there is no USB terminal, or that it won't have one when it ships in (February/April) 2011. There are a lot of specs left out, and they (Acer) seemed very careful to show as little as possible about the tablet.
Except for the existence and likely delivery date, I'm guessing that a lot is subject to change.
Are your banks ran by complete scumbags
Yes, yes they are.
Apple may use this information, as long as it is in a form that does not personally identify you, to improve our products or to provide services or technologies to you.
So, if they violate this, that would be a breach of contract, yes?
No, there's no unattended hole in the fence. If you're going to hand over control of anything to another party you need to set instructions.
FWIW, rent-a-cops and servers have a lot in common when it comes to making intelligent decisions. The only difference is that the servers are consistent and don't have "friends" they bend the rules for without you knowing.
You're a few years behind. MS Office works great on Win and OSX, makes PDFs straight from "save as" dialog, and costs less than half a day's employee cost (often north of $75/hr, burdened) - which is barely enough to show them that 90% of their stuff sill work as usual, and that the other 10% either doesn't exist or works differently/is incompatible with all the legacy documentation they have.
As for worrying about someone going to a shop with linux on the desktop (the only place where Office doesn't exist natively), the linux fanbois have been touting for years that you can run practically anything under wine, with the right tweaks, right?
Linus for file services, hell yes. OO for the desktop; only if it's a from-scratch operation, everybody is working for free, and you have no startup capital.
On the contrary - restaurant owners love this system. Wait staff that perform poorly get axed, or get others to do those parts of their jobs for them. That's why they're wait staff, and not bus boys. If you want to work, you get it done.
In return, the owners get to pay them $2/hr. They're effectively paying less than 10-15% of what real, trained, customer-interaction employees would cost. That in itself is enough to make them deal with the other problems.
You're misinformed about how the internet works. The requesting browser _asks_ for content based on a URL. The server provides that content based on the permissions set in the server.
Imagine if you hired a security firm to work the gate at your private party, and told them that you had a bunch of people coming the party, but to only let those people in who came to the gate and asked to come in.
People you didn't know came to the gate, asked to get in, and YOUR security firm let them in based on your instructions. Who's fault is is that people you don't know got in the gate?
There was no hacking, no downed or cut fence. Everybody came in through the door, though they may have not taken the same road to get there as others. Even more importantly, they were let in by the security guard at the front. If you can't hand out tickets, or have the guard check IDs of of a guest list, it's YOUR problem for being an idiot.
That's right - rockets. The old model rocket hobby is actually alive and well. They still have all the classics, but as they get older, the rockets get bigger and more complex now - with multiple recovery stages, and more and more can be fitted with digital cameras.
Once they hit 7th grade, if they really like it, there's a national competition (TARC -
Team America Rocketry Challenge, rocketcontest.org) that has several thousand dollars in prize money.
Regardless, there's a lot of excitement in launches. They even have "micro" versions now, which can be flown on small fields - even in moderate backyards.
I generally know not to trust the technical savvy, honesty or intelligence of anyone who uses a yahoo.com address. I guess I can add facebook to the list.
It'll never happen. Floppy and CDs work just fine in digital cameras. Why would you even want something so small you might lose?
What I want to know if it can run Linux, and then switch to Android in tablet mode. (Or, for me, Windows, and then switch to Android mode, since all my software is Win-centric).
I can see this as a potential win if you really need a keyboard for some things, but would want the tablet factor for others. This might have been on my wish list last year before I purchased an acer mini-laptop (11.6" Timeline), save for the weak processor.
I'm torn, as the specks make it look pretty weak for running full Win7, and experience tells me that the touch interface with Windows is going to be a real bear. Still, the dock and ease of having a keyboard for "work" or slate for couch surfing might be nice.
I guess it will come down to the software, which is where it will ultimately fail. What makes the iPad/Android Tablets so useful is the finger-centric UI. It's what I hated about the older windows phones (which were built for a stylus and very difficult to manipulate with a fat finger).
Well, it's closer to 14%: 32MJ/l for gas vs 36.4MJ/l for Diesel.
Immelt and GE happen to believe that climate change is a real, serious, and urgent problem, and that both GE and America (regardless of whether the administration is Democratic or Republican) can benefit if GE takes an aggressive role in being part of the solution.
You had me right up until the point that they cared about the environment for the environment's sake. What they do care about is the perception that they care, because all the focus groups in the marketing division said they want to support companies which are green. That, and GE makes a lot of the turbines and generator components that make electricity...the demand for which will go up with EV adoption.
I'm convinced that GE doesn't give a rat's ass which party is in power, just as long as they get the benefit of whatever legislation or policies are put into place. They're looking out for #1. I have GE stock (everybody with an index fund does), and they're doing a relatively environmentally positive thing here, so I'm okay with it, regardless of their actual motive.