I've got some Wifi problems in my apartment. In the room with the AP, everything is fine. In the next room, transfer speeds are in the toilet. I used 'WLAN AP Grapher', which gives a graph of signal and noise over time, but that indicated no change in the S/N ratio between rooms. This rather surprised me. If there's interference, there should be noise in the frequency range used by the WLAN.
And on that note: anyone know of a tool for OS X that shows WLAN speeds in a graph ?
What surprises me about the first scene of the video, is the amount of stars that are visible while the mountains are still bathing in light. In fact, the number of visible stars at the top of the video doesn't change much during the progress from dusk to night. For a moment, I suspected the uploader of superimposing a night sky image on a local sunset. There must be a better explanation, but I can't find it.
The pack is big and bulky enough that the addition of a small wing won't make much of a difference. With a wing, you can transition from vertical takeoff using thrust only, to horizontal wing-borne flight which uses much less power (and/or achieves a much higher speed).
TFA mentions 67 minutes travel time. The Shinkansen takes 155 minutes for the same distance, so this would be a significant improvement. The cities are 500 km apart, even an airplane would not take significantly less than an hour.
Navigation charts are an example of information that can benefit from being put onto a computer. The computer can overlay the chart with all sorts of information that you need, but can't necessarily find on a navigation chart, like the navigation plates you mention.
The next step would be to provide a GPS input to the reader, so it can place a position marker on the chart, and e.g. automatically pull up the correct navigation plate for the airport you're currently on.
OK, I know why. PDF is easy to create, and they probably already had the documents in PDF formats anyway.
But if they want to do it right, they'll need to at least create PDFs in an iPad-specific format (page size and font size optimized for easy reading, without having to scroll on the page).
Better yet, don't use PDF at all but a format more suited for digital documentation. Even HTML would be a step up.
This is what you get when the gadgets are given away or subsidized. Abuse will ensue to make sure the provider recovers their costs. On PCs, at least the shovelware is generally removable, and you have the option to buy a nonsubsidized gadget that doesn't have crap installed. In the US phone market, usually the gadget and service are provided by the same party and the abuse includes locking down the OS.
Interesting. My bank has a policy of never contacting its clients via email. They made a lot of noise about this last year when a number of phishers tried sending emails to the bank's clients.
Instead they use either snail mail, or the bank's internet portal (which uses a challenge-response mechanism linked to my debit card so it's reasonably secure).
TFS mentions that "Mastercard and Visa may issue penalties including fines to the acquiring bank ". Why is that when the breach didn't occur at the bank, but at a merchant?
It surprises me that things are set up this way. These flight control systems are set up as multiple-redundant systems, and yet a single failure (pitot tubes icing up) can lead to an information blackout. Also, it's still possible for the instruments to give incorrect information because they rely on sensors that measure secondary effects (e.g. altimeter based on air pressure, measuring height above an assumed sea level instead of a direct altitude measurement by radar). It seems to me that there should be a second, independent path for the essential information (position, attitude, speeds in all dimensions). I know GPS has its faults, but it would provide a useful backup for position and speed and give the pilots more information than the primary instruments can. That leaves attitude information, you can use a gyro-driven artificial horizon for that.
Instead of giving such criminals a name (or worse, a nickname), it's time we start referring to them as "Moron # (sequential number)" and generally not giving them the attention they crave. No more notoriety!
You'll notice that those switches were whole hog: they didn't sell PPC and 68k machines next to each other. They did during the PPC-Intel transition, but only briefly, and again using an emulator to run PPC software. The switch to OS X was done by allowing people to run old software in an emulator.
I don't see them going with an ARM and then wasting 50% of its processing power running an x86 emulator.
I don't see Apple splitting their Mac market into Intel and ARM offerings. They'd be shooting themselves in the foot, offering a computer for which all software must be recompiled.
Mac users have been able to download software from websites ever since the first modem became available for the Mac. This has never been a problem for Apple, so why start now? Not saying it's impossible, but IMO very unlikely.
I recently did some editing on Wikipedia, and came to the issue of licensing my contributions (in this case, photos). I could choose between a dozen licenses, and figuring out the differences between them made my head hurt. The license-choosing process was way more involved than the upload itself, so I gave up and chose the recommended license. I understand the importance of making materials available so others can use them, but does it have to be this complex?
Yup. National Geographic has a documentary (in their 'Megafactories' series) about the UPS hub in the US. It shows that a large fraction of the personnel there has a single task: orienting boxes so the label can be read by the scanners.
There's not much space inside the reactor vessel, so you can't separate the fuel rods by much.
Also, separating the fuel rods isn't going to decrease the amount of energy that's produced. All of the energy still goes into heating up the reactor vessel and its contents, so you end up with the same problem.
You're better off designing a more failsafe cooling loop.
That's unfortunate. I've been a couple of times, and had a knowledgeable guide each time. In winter, they have a small staff on weekdays, so not everything is open and you may get a dull guide. Weekends are better. Or go during the summer.
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I've got some Wifi problems in my apartment. In the room with the AP, everything is fine. In the next room, transfer speeds are in the toilet. I used 'WLAN AP Grapher', which gives a graph of signal and noise over time, but that indicated no change in the S/N ratio between rooms. This rather surprised me. If there's interference, there should be noise in the frequency range used by the WLAN.
And on that note: anyone know of a tool for OS X that shows WLAN speeds in a graph ?
What surprises me about the first scene of the video, is the amount of stars that are visible while the mountains are still bathing in light. In fact, the number of visible stars at the top of the video doesn't change much during the progress from dusk to night.
For a moment, I suspected the uploader of superimposing a night sky image on a local sunset. There must be a better explanation, but I can't find it.
The pack is big and bulky enough that the addition of a small wing won't make much of a difference. With a wing, you can transition from vertical takeoff using thrust only, to horizontal wing-borne flight which uses much less power (and/or achieves a much higher speed).
TFA mentions 67 minutes travel time. The Shinkansen takes 155 minutes for the same distance, so this would be a significant improvement. The cities are 500 km apart, even an airplane would not take significantly less than an hour.
Navigation charts are an example of information that can benefit from being put onto a computer. The computer can overlay the chart with all sorts of information that you need, but can't necessarily find on a navigation chart, like the navigation plates you mention.
The next step would be to provide a GPS input to the reader, so it can place a position marker on the chart, and e.g. automatically pull up the correct navigation plate for the airport you're currently on.
OK, I know why. PDF is easy to create, and they probably already had the documents in PDF formats anyway.
But if they want to do it right, they'll need to at least create PDFs in an iPad-specific format (page size and font size optimized for easy reading, without having to scroll on the page).
Better yet, don't use PDF at all but a format more suited for digital documentation. Even HTML would be a step up.
You're forgetting that checks don't work so well for international transfers.
This is what you get when the gadgets are given away or subsidized. Abuse will ensue to make sure the provider recovers their costs.
On PCs, at least the shovelware is generally removable, and you have the option to buy a nonsubsidized gadget that doesn't have crap installed. In the US phone market, usually the gadget and service are provided by the same party and the abuse includes locking down the OS.
Interesting. My bank has a policy of never contacting its clients via email. They made a lot of noise about this last year when a number of phishers tried sending emails to the bank's clients.
Instead they use either snail mail, or the bank's internet portal (which uses a challenge-response mechanism linked to my debit card so it's reasonably secure).
TFS mentions that "Mastercard and Visa may issue penalties including fines to the acquiring bank ". Why is that when the breach didn't occur at the bank, but at a merchant?
It surprises me that things are set up this way. These flight control systems are set up as multiple-redundant systems, and yet a single failure (pitot tubes icing up) can lead to an information blackout.
Also, it's still possible for the instruments to give incorrect information because they rely on sensors that measure secondary effects (e.g. altimeter based on air pressure, measuring height above an assumed sea level instead of a direct altitude measurement by radar).
It seems to me that there should be a second, independent path for the essential information (position, attitude, speeds in all dimensions). I know GPS has its faults, but it would provide a useful backup for position and speed and give the pilots more information than the primary instruments can. That leaves attitude information, you can use a gyro-driven artificial horizon for that.
Rumors for nerds. Stuff that doesn't matter.
Instead of giving such criminals a name (or worse, a nickname), it's time we start referring to them as "Moron # (sequential number)" and generally not giving them the attention they crave. No more notoriety!
You'll notice that those switches were whole hog: they didn't sell PPC and 68k machines next to each other. They did during the PPC-Intel transition, but only briefly, and again using an emulator to run PPC software. The switch to OS X was done by allowing people to run old software in an emulator.
I don't see them going with an ARM and then wasting 50% of its processing power running an x86 emulator.
Perhaps more surprising is the prof's willingness to share credit for the discovery with his student.
I don't see Apple splitting their Mac market into Intel and ARM offerings. They'd be shooting themselves in the foot, offering a computer for which all software must be recompiled.
Aren't color photocopiers supposed to give an error message when you try to copy a banknote?
Mac users have been able to download software from websites ever since the first modem became available for the Mac. This has never been a problem for Apple, so why start now? Not saying it's impossible, but IMO very unlikely.
What DRM plug? Apple has no way to stop people from downloading software from a website.
Apple's App Store provides a centralized update mechanism. Amazon's store is just a website.
I recently did some editing on Wikipedia, and came to the issue of licensing my contributions (in this case, photos). I could choose between a dozen licenses, and figuring out the differences between them made my head hurt. The license-choosing process was way more involved than the upload itself, so I gave up and chose the recommended license. I understand the importance of making materials available so others can use them, but does it have to be this complex?
Yup.
National Geographic has a documentary (in their 'Megafactories' series) about the UPS hub in the US. It shows that a large fraction of the personnel there has a single task: orienting boxes so the label can be read by the scanners.
TFA states that this is possible due to the codec that is used:
the best...compression for voice data makes use of the structure of speech
So using a not-optimized-for-speech codec (e.g. mp3 or wav) would defeat this.
There's not much space inside the reactor vessel, so you can't separate the fuel rods by much.
Also, separating the fuel rods isn't going to decrease the amount of energy that's produced. All of the energy still goes into heating up the reactor vessel and its contents, so you end up with the same problem.
You're better off designing a more failsafe cooling loop.
That's unfortunate. I've been a couple of times, and had a knowledgeable guide each time.
In winter, they have a small staff on weekdays, so not everything is open and you may get a dull guide. Weekends are better. Or go during the summer.
Check the BP website for details.