It's been quite a long time since modern laptops used cooling systems that suck in air through vents and blowing the warmed air out through the keyboard in-between the keys... Is it any surprise that all the dust being sucked in was being stopped by the keyboard cover? I would also be unsurprised if this was causing problems for its cooling and probably reducing the life of the laptop...
I'd suggest that a better approach (if feasible) would be to use a netbook that doesn't generate so much heat and hence rely on internal airflow to cool - and hence sucking in dust at the same time...
Does the software in your digital watch become obsolete eventually?
It depends on what you want to do. I know many people that use tough-books for information systems e.g. online workshop manuals in garages etc. Where there's no need to upgrade because the software does the job and doesn't change often. This kind of application is the audience that Panasonic target, not people who want to play FPS's on a beach... This is also why there hardware is behind the cutting edge, because they want to test components and chipsets etc and see how they get road-tested by other people first.
In motor racing, all cars are required to have a *mechanical* ignition kill-switch. It has a standard type, colour and positioning so no matter what car you're in you can instinctively find it.
Bear in mind that this isn't a *new* phenomenon directly related to embedded processors and fly-by-wire. About 20 years ago I was in a van with my Auntie when the same thing happened (her old van had a proper carburettor) what happened? A small twig had got under the bonnet and blown up near the throttle cable. When she accelerated full to overtake someone it dropped in place next to the linkage and wedged the throttle open. Luckily this was on the motorway so disaster averted.
If my lovely 65 year old Auntie can figure out to drop the clutch, go into neutral and use the brakes I don't know why anyone else can't!
P.S. Pulling the key is a really bad idea as you'll lock the steering which is basically asking to die at speed!
So... Like may people with half a brain I sent different passwords for different things. For my on-line banking I have a solid proper password you *can't* guess or brute-force. For myspace, random sites, occasional web-mail I use different easy to remember passwords because I care less about being compromised and more about being memorable. Unless your baseline assumption is that people use the same passwords for meaningless services as for critical services, this kind of analysis is very hard to draw conclusions from. Now, if this had been an analysis of the same number of passwords from an on-line banking service I'd be *much* more interested...
Well, that's good, but lets address the original problem - roads have been used for smuggling for many years so lets tax billboard advertisers for the losses incurred by overland smuggling. Petition your local lawmaker NOW!
I'm sorry? I'm anti many things including, but not limited to taxation, racism and organised religion but being "anti" something DOES NOT MEAN I'M ABOUT TO TRY AND KILL ANYONE THAT HOLD VIEWS I'M AGAINST. In fact that holds true for most people. Treating someone as if they are a threat to your safety because they don't share your ideological views is terribly wrong.
On technical points if it was expected to be a bomb, the way you deal with suspect packages is you clear the area for safety, then attempt a controlled explosion of the suspect device. As mentioned previously this isn't done with a handgun as that doesn't work! On a second note, she mentioned that all her kit was swabbed. This is to be used by a device that detects trace amounts of explosives and is more effective than even an x-ray. They would have already known there were no traces of explosives. Thirdly they'd already handled the laptop - if they suspected it to be a bomb, there is no way they would have handled it - Israeli border police have fatally fallen foul of that before sadly, so they wouldn't make that mistake. Lastly, with unattended packages are identified as unattended because no-one knows who they belong to and hence are regarded as suspicious. The fact that they knew it belonged to her (they informed her specifically that they'd shot it) shows they knew what they were doing! If it was seriously suspected to be a bomb and they knew it was hers, she'd have been in handcuffs on the floor while the controlled explosion was carried out and not released until they'd looked at the remains and checked it wasn't an explosive device. It sounds very much like they were being vindictive because they didn't like her!
So, on facebook, to be able to poke someone you have to be in their friends list. If the other party had a restraining order out against them, why had they accepted them into their friends to enable them to send a poke in the first place? Er, duh?
So here's an interesting question I've wondered that I bet some slashdotter may know the answer to :
For this hypothetical electric vehicle with a 500 mile range, what is the capacity of the battery to achieve this range? With the anticipated charging efficiency, how many units of mains electricity are required to charge from empty to achieve this range and hence, what would the approximate cost to the user in electricity be?
Some other interesting questions :
- If we moved in great numbers to electric vehicles, could the national infrastructure satisfy demand? We'd certainly need a lot more high current outlets everywhere.
- When we run out of oil and we're all happy with our gas / electric / solar / human powered vehicles, where do we get the tarmac from to maintain the roads these vehicles will still need to drive on?
Given that it's an archive of things that members of the community have created and use, then surely most of the contents must exist within the community too. With the help of authors original sources and locally downloaded copies they should be able to recreate a good deal of the contents no?
I spent three months consulting for a large european mobile phone manufaturer. On the way in to the R&D floor is a huge sign saying "No Cameras" where the security guard sat. What was I helping them develop inside? Their new line of camera phones....
Of course all the company employees had a lot of pride in the firm and their products too and all had at least one of the company's phones with them normally:-)
I asked about the sign one day for a chuckle and they said that it'd never been enforced!
Well, people don't have keys taken off them because nearly all the population have an obvious need to take keys around with them. How many people have an obvious need for a can opener on the move? You got to admit that it's not exactly normal in the same way carrying keys are.
What you've asked doesn't really back up your question. It'd be interesting if you'd asked "Do you know how many attempted terrorist attacks there have been on US soil between 1961 and 2003 ?" though...
The number "7" that you quote is only the number of successful attacks. Does this number indicate of a low number of attempts or a high success rate of prevention of attacks by authorities?
You could say that "own version of linux is a variation from the standard distribution" or that Cuba "launches own linux variant" but I'm not sure that the combination of the two is quite correct...
Plug : I don't normally like starting grammatical debates as that's a job for people with nothing better in their lives but right now I don't have anything better in my life! If anyone is looking to hire a shit-hot embedded systems engineer, send me an email to ask for my CV...
Well, I think the image of Tux smoking a big Cuban cigar could look superb, despite being a bit like waving a red cloak at the health fascists who'd take offence...
since it is *MY* phone, why can't I do whatever *I* want to it?
You can do whatever you want with it - it's just that Apple won't make it easy for you as that's their perogative. If you don't like it, don't whinge, buy an open platform instead. If you don't like the platforms that are available, get involved and create what you're looking for yourself. Once you've done that you can decide yourself what rights others have to do what they want with your device. If you've invested lots of time and money creating it maybe you might find that you want to look at things differently in order to recoup your costs...
Cultures don't have a right to live. People have a right to live.
If your culture becomes unviable, you move on. It's not the rest of the planet's job to help you to live like a carbon copy of your father. We find this self evident with business models, but cultures evoke silly emotional reactions.
Hmm, picture your average advocate of gun culture in your mind, then re-read that.
Anyway, your argument is true in principle when talking about cultures naturally becoming unviable but this is not the case here. What's in question is a group of people being forced to change due to the irresponsible actions of others. If I came over to your house/city/country and made your way of life impossible just because I felt like it, or because I'd found a way to make money out of it, I bet you wouldn't say "Oh well, I'd better move on then." with no kind of emotional reaction. I think you'd have a few words to say.
afraid of being tracked? don't carry your cellphone.
Nah, that's dangerous - you might need the phone to call an Ambulance after being shot at by the American squaddies...! Of course the pragmatic approach is to carry one but leave it switched off unless required.
Well, night vision may be an advantage but I'm pretty sure the Taliban have it too. In fact, it's being sent to Afganistan by UK nationals for use by insurgents so the odds are they're sharing with the Taliban as they're buddies.
As a further note - no-one ever mentions the possibilities for more accurate route-planning if routes driven sent feedback on predicted time, time taken, day and time of travel etc. You could make INCREDIBLY accurate traffic models from this kind of feedback.
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It's been quite a long time since modern laptops used cooling systems that suck in air through vents and blowing the warmed air out through the keyboard in-between the keys... Is it any surprise that all the dust being sucked in was being stopped by the keyboard cover? I would also be unsurprised if this was causing problems for its cooling and probably reducing the life of the laptop...
I'd suggest that a better approach (if feasible) would be to use a netbook that doesn't generate so much heat and hence rely on internal airflow to cool - and hence sucking in dust at the same time...
Does the software in your digital watch become obsolete eventually?
It depends on what you want to do. I know many people that use tough-books for information systems e.g. online workshop manuals in garages etc. Where there's no need to upgrade because the software does the job and doesn't change often. This kind of application is the audience that Panasonic target, not people who want to play FPS's on a beach... This is also why there hardware is behind the cutting edge, because they want to test components and chipsets etc and see how they get road-tested by other people first.
In motor racing, all cars are required to have a *mechanical* ignition kill-switch. It has a standard type, colour and positioning so no matter what car you're in you can instinctively find it.
Not a bad idea for all cars if you ask me :-D
Bear in mind that this isn't a *new* phenomenon directly related to embedded processors and fly-by-wire. About 20 years ago I was in a van with my Auntie when the same thing happened (her old van had a proper carburettor) what happened? A small twig had got under the bonnet and blown up near the throttle cable. When she accelerated full to overtake someone it dropped in place next to the linkage and wedged the throttle open. Luckily this was on the motorway so disaster averted.
If my lovely 65 year old Auntie can figure out to drop the clutch, go into neutral and use the brakes I don't know why anyone else can't!
P.S. Pulling the key is a really bad idea as you'll lock the steering which is basically asking to die at speed!
~Pev
So... Like may people with half a brain I sent different passwords for different things. For my on-line banking I have a solid proper password you *can't* guess or brute-force. For myspace, random sites, occasional web-mail I use different easy to remember passwords because I care less about being compromised and more about being memorable. Unless your baseline assumption is that people use the same passwords for meaningless services as for critical services, this kind of analysis is very hard to draw conclusions from. Now, if this had been an analysis of the same number of passwords from an on-line banking service I'd be *much* more interested...
Well, that's good, but lets address the original problem - roads have been used for smuggling for many years so lets tax billboard advertisers for the losses incurred by overland smuggling. Petition your local lawmaker NOW!
I'm sorry? I'm anti many things including, but not limited to taxation, racism and organised religion but being "anti" something DOES NOT MEAN I'M ABOUT TO TRY AND KILL ANYONE THAT HOLD VIEWS I'M AGAINST. In fact that holds true for most people. Treating someone as if they are a threat to your safety because they don't share your ideological views is terribly wrong.
On technical points if it was expected to be a bomb, the way you deal with suspect packages is you clear the area for safety, then attempt a controlled explosion of the suspect device. As mentioned previously this isn't done with a handgun as that doesn't work! On a second note, she mentioned that all her kit was swabbed. This is to be used by a device that detects trace amounts of explosives and is more effective than even an x-ray. They would have already known there were no traces of explosives. Thirdly they'd already handled the laptop - if they suspected it to be a bomb, there is no way they would have handled it - Israeli border police have fatally fallen foul of that before sadly, so they wouldn't make that mistake. Lastly, with unattended packages are identified as unattended because no-one knows who they belong to and hence are regarded as suspicious. The fact that they knew it belonged to her (they informed her specifically that they'd shot it) shows they knew what they were doing! If it was seriously suspected to be a bomb and they knew it was hers, she'd have been in handcuffs on the floor while the controlled explosion was carried out and not released until they'd looked at the remains and checked it wasn't an explosive device. It sounds very much like they were being vindictive because they didn't like her!
So, on facebook, to be able to poke someone you have to be in their friends list. If the other party had a restraining order out against them, why had they accepted them into their friends to enable them to send a poke in the first place? Er, duh?
So here's an interesting question I've wondered that I bet some slashdotter may know the answer to :
For this hypothetical electric vehicle with a 500 mile range, what is the capacity of the battery to achieve this range? With the anticipated charging efficiency, how many units of mains electricity are required to charge from empty to achieve this range and hence, what would the approximate cost to the user in electricity be?
Some other interesting questions :
- If we moved in great numbers to electric vehicles, could the national infrastructure satisfy demand? We'd certainly need a lot more high current outlets everywhere.
- When we run out of oil and we're all happy with our gas / electric / solar / human powered vehicles, where do we get the tarmac from to maintain the roads these vehicles will still need to drive on?
~Pev
Shouldn't that be Steve Buttle?
Given that it's an archive of things that members of the community have created and use, then surely most of the contents must exist within the community too. With the help of authors original sources and locally downloaded copies they should be able to recreate a good deal of the contents no?
I spent three months consulting for a large european mobile phone manufaturer. On the way in to the R&D floor is a huge sign saying "No Cameras" where the security guard sat. What was I helping them develop inside? Their new line of camera phones....
Of course all the company employees had a lot of pride in the firm and their products too and all had at least one of the company's phones with them normally :-)
I asked about the sign one day for a chuckle and they said that it'd never been enforced!
Well, people don't have keys taken off them because nearly all the population have an obvious need to take keys around with them. How many people have an obvious need for a can opener on the move? You got to admit that it's not exactly normal in the same way carrying keys are.
What you've asked doesn't really back up your question. It'd be interesting if you'd asked "Do you know how many attempted terrorist attacks there have been on US soil between 1961 and 2003 ?" though...
The number "7" that you quote is only the number of successful attacks. Does this number indicate of a low number of attempts or a high success rate of prevention of attacks by authorities?
You could say that "own version of linux is a variation from the standard distribution" or that Cuba "launches own linux variant" but I'm not sure that the combination of the two is quite correct...
Plug : I don't normally like starting grammatical debates as that's a job for people with nothing better in their lives but right now I don't have anything better in my life! If anyone is looking to hire a shit-hot embedded systems engineer, send me an email to ask for my CV...
Well, I think the image of Tux smoking a big Cuban cigar could look superb, despite being a bit like waving a red cloak at the health fascists who'd take offence...
Now how did I end up replying to the worng article *smack*
Time for more coffee...
That's not the HeliOS I remember working with many years ago (Perihelion RIP!) :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeliOS
Funny how product / project names come around and go around...
This is meaningless. However if they'd differentiated between substance use and substance abuse it would have been quite an interesting comparison.
You can do whatever you want with it - it's just that Apple won't make it easy for you as that's their perogative. If you don't like it, don't whinge, buy an open platform instead. If you don't like the platforms that are available, get involved and create what you're looking for yourself. Once you've done that you can decide yourself what rights others have to do what they want with your device. If you've invested lots of time and money creating it maybe you might find that you want to look at things differently in order to recoup your costs...
Surely, if you're not actually asking the pertinent questions is it really journalism?
Hmm, picture your average advocate of gun culture in your mind, then re-read that.
Anyway, your argument is true in principle when talking about cultures naturally becoming unviable but this is not the case here. What's in question is a group of people being forced to change due to the irresponsible actions of others. If I came over to your house/city/country and made your way of life impossible just because I felt like it, or because I'd found a way to make money out of it, I bet you wouldn't say "Oh well, I'd better move on then." with no kind of emotional reaction. I think you'd have a few words to say.
Nah, that's dangerous - you might need the phone to call an Ambulance after being shot at by the American squaddies...! Of course the pragmatic approach is to carry one but leave it switched off unless required.
Well, night vision may be an advantage but I'm pretty sure the Taliban have it too. In fact, it's being sent to Afganistan by UK nationals for use by insurgents so the odds are they're sharing with the Taliban as they're buddies.
As a further note - no-one ever mentions the possibilities for more accurate route-planning if routes driven sent feedback on predicted time, time taken, day and time of travel etc. You could make INCREDIBLY accurate traffic models from this kind of feedback.