The comments of someone who knows a thing or two about the economics of space transport:
"While Musk loves electric cars and spaceflight, there's one thing he hates: space solar power. "You'd have to convert photon to electron to photon back to electron. What's the conversion rate?" he says, getting riled up for the first time during his talk. "Stab that bloody thing in the heart!""
It will be very interesting to see how Apple's intransigence holds up when China goes through with its threat to prevent the sale of phones that don't contain a back door. It seems they could be painting themselves into a corner.
The linked article contains a misleading statement which is given as a quote: Autosteer is now “restricted to residential roads and roads without a center divider.” which implies that it can only be used on these type roads. Actually, the upgrade restricts driving on residential roads and roads without a center divider by limiting the maximum autopilot speed to 5 mph above the posted speed limit. So, quite a different spin. (Source Ver 7.1 release notes)
Yes, but owners who purchased the autopilot capability when they bought the car (probably most who bought in the last year) don't need to pay anything more to get this feature. I've just been driving around in mine learning how to use it. It's pretty awesome.
The SAGE computer (AN/USQ-7) was truly mind blowing in scope. IBM produced a very cool movie of the system in operation in 1956 (along with some great cold war propaganda) that is a wonderful time capsule to boot. It shows a scale model of the building that housed the system to allow pointing out where all the pieces were located. My father spent some time as an operator of the huge display scopes at the McChord AFB installation.
Not sure why a new charger from Google is big news. In addition to the original Google 'Orb' charger, the Verizon WCP-300, which is made by LG (who make the Nexus 4 and 5) works great. I've had one of those for months and like it a lot.
Wireless charging is very handy because I can just plop the phone down on it any time I'm at my desk. Without it I'd hesitate before using the normal charging cable, just to save fiddling with it and the wear and tear on the connector. And the phone stays more fully charged that way.
Is it too much to expect the quotation in the summary to actually come from the linked article? In part it says "Recent upgrades,... will allow the station to be better received even in large buildings." My curiosity was piqued. What were these upgrades? Not only was there no explanation in the Wired article, none of the text quoted in the summary seems to appear in the article. WTF?
I don't mind the rush to add more features to phones, but I wish more effort could be spent on the obvious missing feature: better voice quality. Now that internet bandwidths are high enough to stream HD video, why can't we have intelligible voice communication? I can make a VOIP call from my smartphone that sounds like a land line. But a regular phone call is often so garbled that you spend more time saying "WHAT?" than communicating.
Um, well, actually there are. "The [WAAS] satellites also broadcast the same type of range information as normal GPS satellites, effectively increasing the number of satellites available for a position fix."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentation_System
The title seems okay to me.
There is a pdf installation guide on the download page with instruction
on how to install in different OSs including OSX, Solaris and FreeBSD,
and other Distros including Debian, Gentoo and Slackware. It's here:
A couple of months ago a guy in rural San Diego did exactly that
and nabbed some identity thieves stealing folk's mail from their mailboxes at
night. Here's the story from the San Diego Union Tribune:
This question came up on the xfce user's email list. Here is a link to the relevent reply:
http://lunar-linux.org/pipermail/xfce/2004-Decembe r/012132.html
To anyone who
thinks this sounds like the best alternative to the bloated KDE and
Gnome, it is. Go the their website and check out the flash demos. They
show how well (and how fast) it works better than any description. The
window manager has about a bazillion
styles from simple to extreme. If you want to compile it yourself, the
graphical installers are fabulous. Translations into 40 languages! Xfce
simply
rocks.
The parallel approach works for me and it's very cool. Much better than the ugly red/blue tint that you get with the anaglyphs. The cross-eyed approach just makes my eyes hurt.
You just have to let your eyes relax and just sort of nudge the two images into convergence.
The only problem is convincing your friends and family that it works and trying to instruct them how to do it.
My newer D-Link 604 router has some statistics and a thorough logging function (which is displayed in the web gui). - Is all of it really visible to the end user?
A better question is: Is any of it visible to the manufacturer?
Slashdot Mirror
You can also dial up the audio from WWV (the time and frequency broadcast from the NIST) at 303-499-7111
by the fact that they were doing it 60 years ago. Even before touch-tone phones.
The comments of someone who knows a thing or two about the economics of space transport: "While Musk loves electric cars and spaceflight, there's one thing he hates: space solar power. "You'd have to convert photon to electron to photon back to electron. What's the conversion rate?" he says, getting riled up for the first time during his talk. "Stab that bloody thing in the heart!""
WWVB transmits on 60KHz. This is longwave not shortwave - The wavelength is 5 kilometers.
It will be very interesting to see how Apple's intransigence holds up when China goes through with its threat to prevent the sale of phones that don't contain a back door. It seems they could be painting themselves into a corner.
It reads the speed limit signs using the front facing camera.
The linked article contains a misleading statement which is given as a quote: Autosteer is now “restricted to residential roads and roads without a center divider.” which implies that it can only be used on these type roads. Actually, the upgrade restricts driving on residential roads and roads without a center divider by limiting the maximum autopilot speed to 5 mph above the posted speed limit. So, quite a different spin. (Source Ver 7.1 release notes)
Yes, but owners who purchased the autopilot capability when they bought the car (probably most who bought in the last year) don't need to pay anything more to get this feature. I've just been driving around in mine learning how to use it. It's pretty awesome.
The SAGE computer (AN/USQ-7) was truly mind blowing in scope. IBM produced a very cool movie of the system in operation in 1956 (along with some great cold war propaganda) that is a wonderful time capsule to boot. It shows a scale model of the building that housed the system to allow pointing out where all the pieces were located. My father spent some time as an operator of the huge display scopes at the McChord AFB installation.
Movie here: https://archive.org/details/0772_On_Guard_The_Story_of_SAGE_18_48_05_00
Not sure why a new charger from Google is big news. In addition to the original Google 'Orb' charger, the Verizon WCP-300, which is made by LG (who make the Nexus 4 and 5) works great. I've had one of those for months and like it a lot.
Wireless charging is very handy because I can just plop the phone down on it any time I'm at my desk. Without it I'd hesitate before using the normal charging cable, just to save fiddling with it and the wear and tear on the connector. And the phone stays more fully charged that way.
Yeah, I guess that's near Sand Diego
Is it too much to expect the quotation in the summary to actually come from the linked article? In part it says "Recent upgrades, ... will allow the station to be better received even in large buildings." My curiosity was piqued. What were these upgrades? Not only was there no explanation in the Wired article, none of the text quoted in the summary seems to appear in the article. WTF?
I don't mind the rush to add more features to phones, but I wish more effort could be spent on the obvious missing feature: better voice quality. Now that internet bandwidths are high enough to stream HD video, why can't we have intelligible voice communication? I can make a VOIP call from my smartphone that sounds like a land line. But a regular phone call is often so garbled that you spend more time saying "WHAT?" than communicating.
There are No GPS satellites in GEO. They have their own special orbits. The title is really, really wrong... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gps#Space_segment
Um, well, actually there are. "The [WAAS] satellites also broadcast the same type of range information as normal GPS satellites, effectively increasing the number of satellites available for a position fix." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentation_System The title seems okay to me.
It looks to me that I can charge $1,000,000 for my GPL software and charge another $1,000,000 for the source.
Yes you could. But why would anyone buy it?
There is a pdf installation guide on the download page with instruction on how to install in different OSs including OSX, Solaris and FreeBSD, and other Distros including Debian, Gentoo and Slackware. It's here:
2 .x/en/SETUP_GUIDE_draft.pdf
http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/
Oops. Deeper link to actual story.
Not so stupid.
A couple of months ago a guy in rural San Diego did exactly that and nabbed some identity thieves stealing folk's mail from their mailboxes at night. Here's the story from the San Diego Union Tribune:
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sandiego/
There is a torrent here: http://www.titaniumforums.com/torrent/software/ind ex.php
This question came up on the xfce user's email list. Here is a link to the relevent reply: http://lunar-linux.org/pipermail/xfce/2004-Decembe r/012132.html
To anyone who thinks this sounds like the best alternative to the bloated KDE and Gnome, it is. Go the their website and check out the flash demos. They show how well (and how fast) it works better than any description. The window manager has about a bazillion styles from simple to extreme. If you want to compile it yourself, the graphical installers are fabulous. Translations into 40 languages! Xfce simply rocks.
They never could see those either.
The parallel approach works for me and it's very cool. Much better than the ugly red/blue tint that you get with the anaglyphs. The cross-eyed approach just makes my eyes hurt.
You just have to let your eyes relax and just sort of nudge the two images into convergence.
The only problem is convincing your friends and family that it works and trying to instruct them how to do it.
A better question is: Is any of it visible to the manufacturer?
God I hope they did something about the wallpaper.