I emigrated from the US last month. I don't think they will ever recover, and I didn't want to be there when the economy collapsed (and no, a couple banks failing isn't a collapse). It's simple.
...[Many easily talked about and hard-to-achieve social goals snipped]...
No one is breaking the law on either side. Palm is breaking a contract with the USB IF though,
Is Palm breaking a contract with the USB-IF? I'm not trying to be snarky, I really want to know: Use of the USB logo requires an agreement with the USB-IF, but If I was a cheapskate and didn't want to license the USB logo, what's stopping me from just making up a vendor ID (possibly conflicting with one issued by the USB-IF) and shipping my product?
Back in the early '70's, when I got my SSN card, it plainly stated 'NOT TO BE USED FOR PURPOSES OF IDENTIFICATION'. Apparently this was to forestall the worries of the conservatives who predicted the abuses of a national ID. Ghod I wish I still had that card.
Or the government was explicitly declaring that they were not guaranteeing that the holder of the card is who he says he is (i.e., "this card can be easily faked, and there is no database available to you, Joe Citizen, to be checked against)
I drive a 1993 Mazda pickup that routinely gets 30MPG on the highway, even though it complains when I try to drive it at highway speeds. Our family car is a 2000 Oldsmobile Alero with a 3.4L V6, and it also gets 30-32MPG on the highway, with the added luxury of air conditioning and a working radio.
You can babble about toxic batteries (cluephone: The whole LiIon battery pack is vastly, vastly less toxic than the Lead-acid battery in your smog emitter)
But the lead-acid battery is very recyclable, and the system in place for doing so works very well: the is usually a "core" charge for the purchase of a new battery, which is refunded when the old one is returned to the retailer, and the retailer is required to accept the old battery for recycling.
But, I do agree that this is a very good development. Question: Is EV technology advanced enough that we can purchase a first year Volt, or are there still some bugs that need to be worked out with this model?
But the deal is, he paid supposed professionals to handle this for him. You pay a moving company to take care of your stuff. You get insurance for any stuff that's broken or missing when they arrive. If his plan was to avoid the headache of moving everything himself by paying somebody to take care of it, why bother to give yourself a headache second-guessing the movers? If you are concerned about the safety of your stuff because you don't trust the movers, you've hired the wrong movers.
So three seconds is too long. With the amount of power a microwave generates, probably leaving it there just long enough to hear the magnetron power on would be long enough to overload something in the RFID chip.
I remember my old Mouse Systems mouse that came with the brand spankin' new 286. The driver disk included a text-mode solitaire game that was a great way to teach my dad how to handle the mouse.
The game would let you violate the rules of the game, but it would flash "You're Cheating!" when you made an illegal move. If you eliminated all of the cards, it would congratulate you on the win, but remind you "(but you did cheat!)".
It was a great balance between letting you finish the game if you want, but flagging the win as tainted.
Reminds me of the proposal of asterisking the hall of fame records of all those baseball players caught using steroids...
There is no such thing right now. You either have an account, or you are SOL. There is a place on their site where you can leave your e-mail address to be notified when new sign ups are available. Is Google gearing up for Beta round 2 with these new number reservations?
They spoof the caller ID info (this is where the phone companies should be atomic dope slapped)
Caller ID is working for the phone company exactly as planned. You're paying each month to have it delivered to your phone, and they can charge you each month to have your number blocked. Spoofing is beside the point.
Here in Utah, several counties require yearly emissions tests to register the vehicle. These used to be performed with exhaust probes, but these days they just use the ODB port to query the state of the car's on-board sensors. If the Check Engine light is on, you fail automatically, as it often indicates emissions problems. If your car is turning on the Check Engine light, you will need to have it turned off before your next renewal, which means a visit to either the dealer or to the parts store with the friendly staff that will pull the codes and allow you to reset the light.
I've built many of my machines in the past, and I can safely say that I will never be doing it in the future.
When I was younger with more free time on my hands, I thought nothing of spending hours tracking down all of the components. Then, I would order all of the components from 5-6 different vendors, along with the hassle of tracking shipments and keeping warranty information from each vendor in the case of a problem.
If I were in the market for a new machine today, I would spend about 30 minutes doing some on-line pricing of a prebuilt machine. A Dell.com price is going to meet, beat, or be within a few tens of dollars to the price that I could build it for, that it makes no sense for me to do it myself. Plus, one vendor to call for any problems.
Granted, in the past 10-15 years my expectations from my computers have changed quite a bit. I used to be on the lookout for a great deal on a top-of-the-line gaming machine, but these days just about any reasonable desktop is fine for my needs.
The aim is zero waste to landfill, and eventually to make printer/photocopier consumables totally recyclable in the sense of returning the materials back to their manufacturers.
Which option is being used to return that cartridge:
No, but each Building of Holding is able to hold at least 18,000 Corporations of Shells. Each of these can hold an unlimited number of Profits of Vapor.
As long as we're in pedantic mode, a LM7805 (or any other linear regulator) will save no more power than a zener and resistor. A better option would be to start with a voltage source closer to the 5V that you want (say a 6V battery pack) and use a low dropout regulator.
Even with an efficient switchmode regulator, a 9V battery wouldn't last terribly long at these loads. You might be able to get overnight out of it, though.
As long as we're leeching bandwidth from the library or computer lab, might as well hook it up to their AC power, too.
A more interesting application would be to leave something like this inside the drop ceiling of the men's room of your favorite corporate-espionage target for a week at a time.
Utah has just opened a commuter train along the corridor north and south of Salt Lake City.
Apparently ridership numbers have exceeded projections, which is fantastic.
I have several friends who have tried to use it to get to work, and their reports have always been the same: the train ride is great, reading a newspaper or using the free wifi, but getting from the closest station to their workplace is a hassle. Some larger companies offer shuttle service to their employees, and there is bus service connecting at the stations, but that also involves quite a walk from the closest bus stop to their offices. One friend really wanted to like the train and tried taking his bike along for the 10-mile trip from the train station to his office.
The train is a quick trip, but after adding the extra time required on both ends of the trip, the overall time is much longer.
Once they are in their cars on the way to the station, it's just much easier to keep driving and bypass the train altogether.
I say let them die in jail, make them spend the rest of there lives rotting away.
I'm not trying to be a wise-ass here, but am genuinely interested in the opinion of this group: does forcing them to "rot away" in a cell not also equal taking their life? I've never spent any time in prison, but knowing I would never leave that place alive would amount to more torture and anguish to me than just simply being executed.
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I emigrated from the US last month. I don't think they will ever recover, and I didn't want to be there when the economy collapsed (and no, a couple banks failing isn't a collapse). It's simple.
...[Many easily talked about and hard-to-achieve social goals snipped]...
Wow! You're right! That is simple!
No one is breaking the law on either side. Palm is breaking a contract with the USB IF though,
Is Palm breaking a contract with the USB-IF? I'm not trying to be snarky, I really want to know: Use of the USB logo requires an agreement with the USB-IF, but If I was a cheapskate and didn't want to license the USB logo, what's stopping me from just making up a vendor ID (possibly conflicting with one issued by the USB-IF) and shipping my product?
Back in the early '70's, when I got my SSN card, it plainly stated 'NOT TO BE USED FOR PURPOSES OF IDENTIFICATION'. Apparently this was to forestall the worries of the conservatives who predicted the abuses of a national ID. Ghod I wish I still had that card.
Or the government was explicitly declaring that they were not guaranteeing that the holder of the card is who he says he is (i.e., "this card can be easily faked, and there is no database available to you, Joe Citizen, to be checked against)
I drive a 1993 Mazda pickup that routinely gets 30MPG on the highway, even though it complains when I try to drive it at highway speeds.
Our family car is a 2000 Oldsmobile Alero with a 3.4L V6, and it also gets 30-32MPG on the highway, with the added luxury of air conditioning and a working radio.
Or, if you're looking for luxury: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgoWeNeItzY
You can babble about toxic batteries (cluephone: The whole LiIon battery pack is vastly, vastly less toxic than the Lead-acid battery in your smog emitter)
But the lead-acid battery is very recyclable, and the system in place for doing so works very well: the is usually a "core" charge for the purchase of a new battery, which is refunded when the old one is returned to the retailer, and the retailer is required to accept the old battery for recycling.
But, I do agree that this is a very good development. Question: Is EV technology advanced enough that we can purchase a first year Volt, or are there still some bugs that need to be worked out with this model?
How about training a small monkey to climb into the deposit box and hand up the envelopes?
Oh, I think I should have included "Profit!!!" somewhere on that list
That's right after "Soylent".
But the deal is, he paid supposed professionals to handle this for him.
You pay a moving company to take care of your stuff. You get insurance for any stuff that's broken or missing when they arrive.
If his plan was to avoid the headache of moving everything himself by paying somebody to take care of it, why bother to give yourself a headache second-guessing the movers? If you are concerned about the safety of your stuff because you don't trust the movers, you've hired the wrong movers.
And from Wikipedia's article on Basic Access Control, it seems that there may still be flaws in these security measures.
So three seconds is too long. With the amount of power a microwave generates, probably leaving it there just long enough to hear the magnetron power on would be long enough to overload something in the RFID chip.
This is all just a distraction from the "real secret", a 2 million square foot datacenter that they're building in lake Superior's salt mines.
Well, thanks a lot for blowing it! There's one 2 million square foot datacenter gone to waste...
I remember my old Mouse Systems mouse that came with the brand spankin' new 286. The driver disk included a text-mode solitaire game that was a great way to teach my dad how to handle the mouse.
The game would let you violate the rules of the game, but it would flash "You're Cheating!" when you made an illegal move. If you eliminated all of the cards, it would congratulate you on the win, but remind you "(but you did cheat!)".
It was a great balance between letting you finish the game if you want, but flagging the win as tainted.
Reminds me of the proposal of asterisking the hall of fame records of all those baseball players caught using steroids...
There is no such thing right now. You either have an account, or you are SOL. There is a place on their site where you can leave your e-mail address to be notified when new sign ups are available.
Is Google gearing up for Beta round 2 with these new number reservations?
They spoof the caller ID info (this is where the phone companies should be atomic dope slapped)
Caller ID is working for the phone company exactly as planned. You're paying each month to have it delivered to your phone, and they can charge you each month to have your number blocked. Spoofing is beside the point.
Macs are easy to maintain! Just see here.
Aren't you leaving out Chris Kattan?
Here in Utah, several counties require yearly emissions tests to register the vehicle. These used to be performed with exhaust probes, but these days they just use the ODB port to query the state of the car's on-board sensors.
If the Check Engine light is on, you fail automatically, as it often indicates emissions problems.
If your car is turning on the Check Engine light, you will need to have it turned off before your next renewal, which means a visit to either the dealer or to the parts store with the friendly staff that will pull the codes and allow you to reset the light.
How about just putting another button next to the OnStar button that speed dials 1-888-CAR-TALK?
I've built many of my machines in the past, and I can safely say that I will never be doing it in the future.
When I was younger with more free time on my hands, I thought nothing of spending hours tracking down all of the components. Then, I would order all of the components from 5-6 different vendors, along with the hassle of tracking shipments and keeping warranty information from each vendor in the case of a problem.
If I were in the market for a new machine today, I would spend about 30 minutes doing some on-line pricing of a prebuilt machine. A Dell.com price is going to meet, beat, or be within a few tens of dollars to the price that I could build it for, that it makes no sense for me to do it myself. Plus, one vendor to call for any problems.
Granted, in the past 10-15 years my expectations from my computers have changed quite a bit. I used to be on the lookout for a great deal on a top-of-the-line gaming machine, but these days just about any reasonable desktop is fine for my needs.
The aim is zero waste to landfill, and eventually to make printer/photocopier consumables totally recyclable in the sense of returning the materials back to their manufacturers.
Which option is being used to return that cartridge:
-or-
The IRS last month announced an amnesty program to give off-shore companies the "opportunity" to open their books for a chance at reduced fines
This sounds like the stick that follows the carrot.
No, but each Building of Holding is able to hold at least 18,000 Corporations of Shells. Each of these can hold an unlimited number of Profits of Vapor.
As long as we're in pedantic mode, a LM7805 (or any other linear regulator) will save no more power than a zener and resistor. A better option would be to start with a voltage source closer to the 5V that you want (say a 6V battery pack) and use a low dropout regulator.
Even with an efficient switchmode regulator, a 9V battery wouldn't last terribly long at these loads. You might be able to get overnight out of it, though.
As long as we're leeching bandwidth from the library or computer lab, might as well hook it up to their AC power, too.
A more interesting application would be to leave something like this inside the drop ceiling of the men's room of your favorite corporate-espionage target for a week at a time.
Utah has just opened a commuter train along the corridor north and south of Salt Lake City.
Apparently ridership numbers have exceeded projections, which is fantastic.
I have several friends who have tried to use it to get to work, and their reports have always been the same: the train ride is great, reading a newspaper or using the free wifi, but getting from the closest station to their workplace is a hassle. Some larger companies offer shuttle service to their employees, and there is bus service connecting at the stations, but that also involves quite a walk from the closest bus stop to their offices. One friend really wanted to like the train and tried taking his bike along for the 10-mile trip from the train station to his office.
The train is a quick trip, but after adding the extra time required on both ends of the trip, the overall time is much longer.
Once they are in their cars on the way to the station, it's just much easier to keep driving and bypass the train altogether.
I say let them die in jail, make them spend the rest of there lives rotting away.
I'm not trying to be a wise-ass here, but am genuinely interested in the opinion of this group: does forcing them to "rot away" in a cell not also equal taking their life?
I've never spent any time in prison, but knowing I would never leave that place alive would amount to more torture and anguish to me than just simply being executed.