The problem with peltier coolers is that if it breaks down, the once cooling surface becomes an insulator. Plus, if the hot side gets too hot, the cooling process breaks down, so anyone using this would have to use a cooler that can draw the heat away as fast as the CPU-side peltier can kick it out, which would probably be another, larger peltier.
I'd rather stick to external cooling systems that I can monitor and replace if necessary.
We have remote controlled mines that we can turn on and off at will, bombs that can set up a minefield from 50,000 feet, mines that will deactivate after a relatively short period of time.
I keep hearing this, but not one of these are designed to detonate the entire field at the end of the time period. Instead, they just disarm, where they're forgotten for a few decades until the explosive destabilizes and goes off on its own, killing whoever is in the area.
But don't worry about the future, you'll be dead by then.
Oh its easy to do that, simply cap the amount that lawyers get from the lawsuit at a fixed (not percentage) amount and a change in the way awards are done. Pain and suffering? Here's a trustfund to cover your painmeds and a shrink for as long as you need them. Punitive damages? If whatever was done was SO bad, throw the doc out of the profession. (and I'm not talking about the doctor who takes on the risky brain cancer operation that the patient was going to die in months without and patient doesn't survive even though the doc did everything right, or the people who sue the OB who delivered the baby for brain damage when their kid fails to get into Yale.)
Of course, you're not going to see the LAWYERS in charge around here fixing their profession anytime soon.
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You mean "What is wrong with proprietary?" right? After all, the entirety of this problem was because NASA bought a black box proprietary technology, and without access to its specs could only pray that it performed as advertised.
In this case, the black box didn't meet the required standards, but there was no way NASA could have known that this company built the black box out of off-the-shelf terrestrial design principles unfit for cosmic use.
Why should it matter which way I scan the card? Why not have a reader on both sides of the slot? Why do I have all of these prompts?
From watching my parents try to use these things, there should be a minimum of two steps: 1) verify the price on the LCD. (at this point, adventurous types can add cashback) 2) swipe card if the price is right. The card type should be identifiable from the card's number. If its a debit card, beep to indicate the user should enter their pin now. If its not a debit card and the user selected cashback, it beeps and tells the user that its not a debit card, and the user should swipe another card, or hit OK to continue anyway. If the user tries entering the PIN (ie, doesn't read the screen and assumes they swiped their debit card) ignore the first OK push after pressing a number.
Journalists feel that it is their job to collect info and put things into context themselves. The ITAA shot themselves in the foot.
Journalists? I'm sure this stuff will be parroted day in and out by our news "personalities" that can tell you all about the voting crashes with a twinkle in their eye. The news sources these days are packed with more people busy looking out for their parent/grandparent company than corroborating stories, checking facts, or even researching a news item themselves as opposed to just running whatever press release is handed to them.
It may not be portable originally, but how long do you think it will be before someone makes a clamp on LCD and battery pack just like the psone got shortly after its launch?
You have to look at yourself and ask why you think you don't need to prove or earn your position in life. In the end you are accountable to yourself.
You seem to have somehow completely missed the point of all of the whining over outsourcing.
How do I "prove" I deserve to have ANY job when the employer points out that three foreigners can do my job for about half the local asking price? If you say "quality" you completely ignore the many-monkeys viewpoint of most of the outsourcers... they'd just hire all three and one should come up with something usable.
Oh yeah, become an electrician or a plumber, thats what everyone says.
Do you know why thats "where the real money is made"? It's because they carefully control how many operate out of a given region in order to keep supply low and prices high. It's because to become one you have to go through apprenticeship first. It's because not many plumbers and electricians are willing to take an apprentice and train their competition. You might get an apprenticeship if you move out to podunkville, MO and buddy up with the 60-year-old plumber who smells like the pig farm he lives next to and is looking to finally retire and hand over his job to someone who will follow in his steps.
This is not the magic bullet solution to programmer unemployment everyone seems to think it is.
has no chance of surviving re-entry at orbital velocities.
Question: which weighs more, the heat shielding and structure required to survive re-entry at orbital velocities or the fuel required to brake then re-enter at a low velocity?
(Another question, at high altitudes, does the atmosphere rotate with the Earth?)
I would assume the carbon dioxide would have to be pressurized in order to turn the turbines. Though now I wonder if perhaps what it really meant was water with CO2 dissolved in it.
I agree that just dumping it underground doesn't seem to be better than spewing it into the air. I wonder if plants will be able to use underground CO2. How will things like worms and other organisms that keep the soil "prepared" for plants deal with the extra CO2 (which will become a cold gas pretty much as soon as it exits the pipe)
Compared to the results of burning oil or coal for energy, and people's fear of anything nuclear, this design is definitely an improvement, though I worry about the article's mention of finding an electronic solution to the AC rate (If the turbine runs faster than the local standard for AC, why not just use a mechanical solution like a car transmission or if the turbine runs at a constant rate, just some gears with the appropriate size/teeth ratio to get the right RPMs at the coils? Mechanical losses will be made up for by the gains in stepping down the speed.)
Is today the day we're supposed to gripe about the people who write tools? I thought that we're supposed to be backing the people who write programs like p2p clients that people use to do illegal things until Friday.
So, err, did they name these people as undercover agents, or for all anyone who was browsing the site knew they were pictures of tourists taking pictures of a protest?
Switzerland and/or Italy must be way understaffed if they have to expend their undercover agents on something as stupidly obvious as standing around in plain sight and photographing crowds.
I suspect that the idea really is somewhere about like that, until the patent expires. Then the published code would enter the public domain and anyone can use it for whatever, open or closed. Either way open source is a bit of a misnomer since nobody is free to use it in the first case, nor is there licensing to ensure that derivative works remain free after the patent expires (though the original code would remain public domain).
The stuff that is bundled with windows is good enough for most people out of the box.
The stuff that is bundled with windows is bundled with windows because Microsoft said so, and that was the problem. No amount of desire, fame, or money would have allowed Dell to install Opera (or Netscape, in the specific case of the original lawsuits) on a Windows pc it was selling, thanks to Microsoft's abuse of its monopoly position.
You say "Opera should make their own OS", but thats not the same. If a Chevy dealer wants to offer a TV with the purchase of a new car, should the dealer have to make their own cars? Their own TVs?
Thanks for the offer, but it sort of one of those passing fancies that arise from strange coincidences (we had DSL activated in our office today, and I had to figure out which wire on the PBX went to the particular outside line DSL was on, then my boss fired a salesperson, who after however much time on the job, STILL hadn't managed to correctly program their voicemail - not that anyone at the company actually knows how to use the thing anymore, and then this article). I also thought of setting up a house ethernet only, though the closer I get to moving out of this place, the more likely I'll be getting another apartment.
I did learn a lot from the responses, like what FXO and FXS meant, and which I'd need to use where. That, and to pay attention to what I'm typing, since I typed both the URL and the text by hand;)
See Asterix, which works with three VoIP protocols.
Personally, I'm intrigued by software like Asterix and its capabilities, but I have absolutely no telephony knowledge and I'm not really sure where to start, like what kind of hardware I'd need in order to set this up with POTS. Lots of modems? Special cards for the phones in the office?
Not to mention that the reports are generally received post-mortem, unless its a *really* extended outage. By the time someone has written it up and mailed it to the FCC, the cell is back up.
Well, you have to realize that the two party system in our country has devolved into such a steaming pile of dung that everyone runs on the platform of:
1) I suck, but I suck less than the incumbent.
or
2) So what if I've fucked up, so did the guy before me, therefore America doesn't deserve any better.
Personally, I have some dark corner of my heart where I'd like to see Bush win, so that after he's had four more years of destruction he'll leave a country which the Republicans won't want to fix and the Democrats won't want to try. Maybe then we can finally see what one of these other parties are capable of.
With the gibberish patent lawyers use in their patents? Abstracts that have nothing to do with the claims? Overly broad claims that cover everything?
And thats without the fact that in the end the claims get interpreted by human beings, and especially in the case of software, the fact that human beings cannot always see how software works (unless its open source. Go FOSS!). A recent case from a friend of mine: there is a patent in place for scheduling appointments with people based on two databases (specifically those words in the claim), one with pending appointments and another with approved appointments. He said "well, we can do this with one database. The company lawyers said that since the software would be closed source, anyone implementing a scheduler which allowed people to screen and approve appointments would be a sitting duck for a lawsuit. Even if the source was revealed and it showed that it used a single database with a field for pending/approved appointments, someone could argue that by dividing the database in such a way, there is effectively two separate databases, and a judge or jury might be fooled into agreeing. That feature of the project was canned.
Being.26 a month is probably why these channels all get bundled together into a "basic" service, and the cable companies have been fighting tooth and nail to prevent customers from getting the choice of a pick-and-choose "cheap" service.
The coward has a point though. Do we really think we can just turn back the tide now, and put an end to software patents? As a compromise, a short-term patent that matches the lifecycle of software is a good place to start, and would possibly be backed by enough large corporations who could bribe its way through congress. The only people hurt by such a plan are the one trick ponies who come up with one thing, and who are desperate to hold onto it as long as they can.
Would be nice, but if the architecture/technology in place cannot answering that sort of demand, what do you do?
You do realize that if the capacity was required, it would be put in place? It's not like people haven't figured out how to deal with/., I'm sure they can cope with a couple of hundred thousand panicking people wanting to know if their children are going to be all right.
Heck, they could just require registration, that seems to stop most slashdotters dead in their tracks.
Proper incident reporting is needed because by the time the press conference comes around, the spill has been spun so fast by everyone involved (especially the spiller) that it will have separated itself from the water in its own centrifuge. That benzene spill will become a "serious, but contained incident which will not cause noticable impact to the environment (nobody will notice the tumors on the fish)."
available to myself as a citizen...I'm not sure that I have a need to see it.
GIS data is useful for a lot of things. Aside from navigational systems (turn left at the next light) we use it at our company to tell people how many offices are in X miles of their house. "We" being a tax-paying company consisting of tax-paying citizens, who currently have to buy the databases and their updates.
Now a larger question is what happens when private resources (this aerial photography company that they're looking to lease from) gets used without purchase, then its unclear if the citizens derive any "ownership" of this data (especially if the contract says no, though it could become a question of whether the government could legally enter into a contract that deprives the citizenship the benefits of their tax dollars)
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The problem with peltier coolers is that if it breaks down, the once cooling surface becomes an insulator. Plus, if the hot side gets too hot, the cooling process breaks down, so anyone using this would have to use a cooler that can draw the heat away as fast as the CPU-side peltier can kick it out, which would probably be another, larger peltier.
I'd rather stick to external cooling systems that I can monitor and replace if necessary.
We have remote controlled mines that we can turn on and off at will, bombs that can set up a minefield from 50,000 feet, mines that will deactivate after a relatively short period of time.
I keep hearing this, but not one of these are designed to detonate the entire field at the end of the time period. Instead, they just disarm, where they're forgotten for a few decades until the explosive destabilizes and goes off on its own, killing whoever is in the area.
But don't worry about the future, you'll be dead by then.
Oh its easy to do that, simply cap the amount that lawyers get from the lawsuit at a fixed (not percentage) amount and a change in the way awards are done. Pain and suffering? Here's a trustfund to cover your painmeds and a shrink for as long as you need them. Punitive damages? If whatever was done was SO bad, throw the doc out of the profession. (and I'm not talking about the doctor who takes on the risky brain cancer operation that the patient was going to die in months without and patient doesn't survive even though the doc did everything right, or the people who sue the OB who delivered the baby for brain damage when their kid fails to get into Yale.)
Of course, you're not going to see the LAWYERS in charge around here fixing their profession anytime soon.
You mean "What is wrong with proprietary?" right? After all, the entirety of this problem was because NASA bought a black box proprietary technology, and without access to its specs could only pray that it performed as advertised.
In this case, the black box didn't meet the required standards, but there was no way NASA could have known that this company built the black box out of off-the-shelf terrestrial design principles unfit for cosmic use.
Why should it matter which way I scan the card? Why not have a reader on both sides of the slot? Why do I have all of these prompts?
From watching my parents try to use these things, there should be a minimum of two steps: 1) verify the price on the LCD. (at this point, adventurous types can add cashback) 2) swipe card if the price is right. The card type should be identifiable from the card's number. If its a debit card, beep to indicate the user should enter their pin now. If its not a debit card and the user selected cashback, it beeps and tells the user that its not a debit card, and the user should swipe another card, or hit OK to continue anyway. If the user tries entering the PIN (ie, doesn't read the screen and assumes they swiped their debit card) ignore the first OK push after pressing a number.
Journalists feel that it is their job to collect info and put things into context themselves. The ITAA shot themselves in the foot.
Journalists? I'm sure this stuff will be parroted day in and out by our news "personalities" that can tell you all about the voting crashes with a twinkle in their eye. The news sources these days are packed with more people busy looking out for their parent/grandparent company than corroborating stories, checking facts, or even researching a news item themselves as opposed to just running whatever press release is handed to them.
It may not be portable originally, but how long do you think it will be before someone makes a clamp on LCD and battery pack just like the psone got shortly after its launch?
You have to look at yourself and ask why you think you don't need to prove or earn your position in life. In the end you are accountable to yourself.
You seem to have somehow completely missed the point of all of the whining over outsourcing.
How do I "prove" I deserve to have ANY job when the employer points out that three foreigners can do my job for about half the local asking price? If you say "quality" you completely ignore the many-monkeys viewpoint of most of the outsourcers... they'd just hire all three and one should come up with something usable.
Become an electrician or a plumber.
Oh yeah, become an electrician or a plumber, thats what everyone says.
Do you know why thats "where the real money is made"? It's because they carefully control how many operate out of a given region in order to keep supply low and prices high. It's because to become one you have to go through apprenticeship first. It's because not many plumbers and electricians are willing to take an apprentice and train their competition. You might get an apprenticeship if you move out to podunkville, MO and buddy up with the 60-year-old plumber who smells like the pig farm he lives next to and is looking to finally retire and hand over his job to someone who will follow in his steps.
This is not the magic bullet solution to programmer unemployment everyone seems to think it is.
has no chance of surviving re-entry at orbital velocities.
Question: which weighs more, the heat shielding and structure required to survive re-entry at orbital velocities or the fuel required to brake then re-enter at a low velocity?
(Another question, at high altitudes, does the atmosphere rotate with the Earth?)
I would assume the carbon dioxide would have to be pressurized in order to turn the turbines. Though now I wonder if perhaps what it really meant was water with CO2 dissolved in it.
I agree that just dumping it underground doesn't seem to be better than spewing it into the air. I wonder if plants will be able to use underground CO2. How will things like worms and other organisms that keep the soil "prepared" for plants deal with the extra CO2 (which will become a cold gas pretty much as soon as it exits the pipe)
Compared to the results of burning oil or coal for energy, and people's fear of anything nuclear, this design is definitely an improvement, though I worry about the article's mention of finding an electronic solution to the AC rate (If the turbine runs faster than the local standard for AC, why not just use a mechanical solution like a car transmission or if the turbine runs at a constant rate, just some gears with the appropriate size/teeth ratio to get the right RPMs at the coils? Mechanical losses will be made up for by the gains in stepping down the speed.)
Is today the day we're supposed to gripe about the people who write tools? I thought that we're supposed to be backing the people who write programs like p2p clients that people use to do illegal things until Friday.
So, err, did they name these people as undercover agents, or for all anyone who was browsing the site knew they were pictures of tourists taking pictures of a protest?
Switzerland and/or Italy must be way understaffed if they have to expend their undercover agents on something as stupidly obvious as standing around in plain sight and photographing crowds.
I suspect that the idea really is somewhere about like that, until the patent expires. Then the published code would enter the public domain and anyone can use it for whatever, open or closed. Either way open source is a bit of a misnomer since nobody is free to use it in the first case, nor is there licensing to ensure that derivative works remain free after the patent expires (though the original code would remain public domain).
The stuff that is bundled with windows is good enough for most people out of the box.
The stuff that is bundled with windows is bundled with windows because Microsoft said so, and that was the problem. No amount of desire, fame, or money would have allowed Dell to install Opera (or Netscape, in the specific case of the original lawsuits) on a Windows pc it was selling, thanks to Microsoft's abuse of its monopoly position.
You say "Opera should make their own OS", but thats not the same. If a Chevy dealer wants to offer a TV with the purchase of a new car, should the dealer have to make their own cars? Their own TVs?
Thanks for the offer, but it sort of one of those passing fancies that arise from strange coincidences (we had DSL activated in our office today, and I had to figure out which wire on the PBX went to the particular outside line DSL was on, then my boss fired a salesperson, who after however much time on the job, STILL hadn't managed to correctly program their voicemail - not that anyone at the company actually knows how to use the thing anymore, and then this article). I also thought of setting up a house ethernet only, though the closer I get to moving out of this place, the more likely I'll be getting another apartment.
;)
I did learn a lot from the responses, like what FXO and FXS meant, and which I'd need to use where. That, and to pay attention to what I'm typing, since I typed both the URL and the text by hand
See Asterix, which works with three VoIP protocols.
Personally, I'm intrigued by software like Asterix and its capabilities, but I have absolutely no telephony knowledge and I'm not really sure where to start, like what kind of hardware I'd need in order to set this up with POTS. Lots of modems? Special cards for the phones in the office?
Not to mention that the reports are generally received post-mortem, unless its a *really* extended outage. By the time someone has written it up and mailed it to the FCC, the cell is back up.
Well, you have to realize that the two party system in our country has devolved into such a steaming pile of dung that everyone runs on the platform of:
1) I suck, but I suck less than the incumbent.
or
2) So what if I've fucked up, so did the guy before me, therefore America doesn't deserve any better.
Personally, I have some dark corner of my heart where I'd like to see Bush win, so that after he's had four more years of destruction he'll leave a country which the Republicans won't want to fix and the Democrats won't want to try. Maybe then we can finally see what one of these other parties are capable of.
With the gibberish patent lawyers use in their patents? Abstracts that have nothing to do with the claims? Overly broad claims that cover everything?
And thats without the fact that in the end the claims get interpreted by human beings, and especially in the case of software, the fact that human beings cannot always see how software works (unless its open source. Go FOSS!). A recent case from a friend of mine: there is a patent in place for scheduling appointments with people based on two databases (specifically those words in the claim), one with pending appointments and another with approved appointments. He said "well, we can do this with one database. The company lawyers said that since the software would be closed source, anyone implementing a scheduler which allowed people to screen and approve appointments would be a sitting duck for a lawsuit. Even if the source was revealed and it showed that it used a single database with a field for pending/approved appointments, someone could argue that by dividing the database in such a way, there is effectively two separate databases, and a judge or jury might be fooled into agreeing. That feature of the project was canned.
Being .26 a month is probably why these channels all get bundled together into a "basic" service, and the cable companies have been fighting tooth and nail to prevent customers from getting the choice of a pick-and-choose "cheap" service.
I don't make enough long distance calls
"Your ISP called, they said you owe them $3000 in long distance internet access for September. They rattled off a huge list of out-of-town websites."
When you're calling over the internet, is there such a thing as long distance anymore?
The coward has a point though. Do we really think we can just turn back the tide now, and put an end to software patents? As a compromise, a short-term patent that matches the lifecycle of software is a good place to start, and would possibly be backed by enough large corporations who could bribe its way through congress. The only people hurt by such a plan are the one trick ponies who come up with one thing, and who are desperate to hold onto it as long as they can.
Would be nice, but if the architecture/technology in place cannot answering that sort of demand, what do you do?
/., I'm sure they can cope with a couple of hundred thousand panicking people wanting to know if their children are going to be all right.
You do realize that if the capacity was required, it would be put in place? It's not like people haven't figured out how to deal with
Heck, they could just require registration, that seems to stop most slashdotters dead in their tracks.
Proper incident reporting is needed because by the time the press conference comes around, the spill has been spun so fast by everyone involved (especially the spiller) that it will have separated itself from the water in its own centrifuge. That benzene spill will become a "serious, but contained incident which will not cause noticable impact to the environment (nobody will notice the tumors on the fish)."
available to myself as a citizen...I'm not sure that I have a need to see it.
GIS data is useful for a lot of things. Aside from navigational systems (turn left at the next light) we use it at our company to tell people how many offices are in X miles of their house. "We" being a tax-paying company consisting of tax-paying citizens, who currently have to buy the databases and their updates.
Now a larger question is what happens when private resources (this aerial photography company that they're looking to lease from) gets used without purchase, then its unclear if the citizens derive any "ownership" of this data (especially if the contract says no, though it could become a question of whether the government could legally enter into a contract that deprives the citizenship the benefits of their tax dollars)