I've heard before that the higher the range of frequency, the harder it is for signals to penetrate things like walls. If we keep advancing along these lines, could this potentially ease our troubles with wifi-over-saturation because we won't be picking up our neighbors' signals?
I already have trouble get wi-fi through the whole house without multiple APs. You must be living in an apartment or something.
Probably not. There is a market for both low-end and high-end devices. Look at normal computers. There are those that rarely buy a new computer. There are also those that will not go more than a year or two without buying a new one. Within those groups, there are those that buy both high-end and low-end computers. As the manufacturing processes get more refined, the technologies originally created for high-end computers will eventually make it into the low-end computers and new technologies will be created for the high-end market. What it would lead to is a wider price gap between high and low end devices and less consistency on the hardware used in new devices since they will be catering to the various markets. You will just have to start paying attention to system requirements on resource hungry software if you buy a low-end device.
From yesterday; the Oracle lawyer was attempting to argue that Google profited by stealing rangeCheck since it allowed them to get to market faster than they would have had they wrote it from scratch.
The only way I could condone privatizing parts of the internet is if government stopped giving special privileges to ISPs and allowed new ISPs to form. If ISP pay their own way, they can control their network. If they get special privileges from the government, they should be regulated.
Honestly, a lot of these much delayed sequels are turning out to be a waste of time for players.
That is not completely true. SC2 was pretty awesome. I am still irritated that there is not LAN play though. I do agree that Blizzard needs to have shorter periods between games of a sequel. And Valve for that matter. I am still waiting for HL3.
Why do you assume the grandparents are intrusive? Perhaps the parents like the fact that the grandparents are taking an regular and active role in their child's life.
They make cases for various tablets that are already pretty drool proof. Laptops don't have such a benefit. I guess you could put a keyboard cover on the laptop but a kid is likely to just take it off (and try eating it.) I bought a gumdrop case for my Asus Transformer. It doubles the weight of the device but if you are just going to mount it to an arm or something, I don't really see how it matters how much the tablet weighs.
Machines, like dogs, do not have 100% uptime, detection, or trigger rates. As for target coverage, they are already bottlenecking everyone through a predetermined path. They don't need 100% coverage. Bomb-sniffing dogs and metal detector are good enough. Besides, there are already machines that will act like bomb-sniffing dogs if you want a little extra probability of detecting a bomb.
Just imagine how bad it must have been before there was a Facebook, and there was no way to let another person know about such important news and emergencies!
In comparison to Facebook and possibly group email, the other methods were vastly inefficient when trying to reach a large group of people. Each communication technology has a place. I wouldn't use Facebook for highly private/sensitive communication but it does have its uses.
You could have sent an email to a bunch of people. I hear that works.
I doubt a nice chunk of the people I know even use personal email on a regular basis. I used to go several days to over a week between email logins. Now that I have a smartphone, I see my emails as they come in.
Does this even matter that much? Ideas are nearly worthless until they are actually practiced/produced. An idea for an amazing new device does not put one in anyone's hand. It is a starting point and goal. Besides, all of the ideas that are public on Kickstarter are there because they have yet to be implemented. They are there because ideas are cheap but their realization is not.
I recently moved to MATE as my window manager but configuring it is frustrating more than anything. I don't like the choice. I just want to be told what the options are and deal with those and then use my computer to work rather than work on configuring my computer.
The best option for the configuration of any software is to be given a short list of standard presets with the option of customizing further. The average person will stick with the preset but the rest of us will not be annoyed when we can't get the settings the way we want.
You want to perpetually beam a highly focused energy beam over long distance aimed at a relatively small target? If the angle is only slightly off, you would are risking running the beam through a town. I trust our nuclear energy technology a lot more than our ability to keep an huge array of satellites perfectly aimed.
I want to know why we have not gone nuclear across the nation. The latest nuclear fission technologies are a lot safer than most people believe. Renewable energy is a nice thought but it is not going to do it in the short term. Perhaps in the future when it is more advanced but not right now.
Barring formatting changes, considering the exception is different depending on the case, there would still need to be nine lines. I do wonder why they did not use the if/else construct though. I seems kind of wasteful to run checks on cases at are no longer possible.
It would be regulating company transparency rather than markets. Treat only criminals like criminals. We should not treat all companies as criminals because they are not all criminal. Besides, for important stuff like medicine, most companies will want to have independent certification in order to get people to trust them. If there is a brand new drug out that has barely been tested and has not been independently certified, it would throw up a red flag in my mind. That said, why should I not be able to take it if I so choose? It would be a voluntary transaction. Why would the company be responsible if bad things happen to me unless they knew there was a chance of it happening and did not bother to tell me before giving me the drug?
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I've heard before that the higher the range of frequency, the harder it is for signals to penetrate things like walls. If we keep advancing along these lines, could this potentially ease our troubles with wifi-over-saturation because we won't be picking up our neighbors' signals?
I already have trouble get wi-fi through the whole house without multiple APs. You must be living in an apartment or something.
That could lead to a level of stagnation.
Probably not. There is a market for both low-end and high-end devices. Look at normal computers. There are those that rarely buy a new computer. There are also those that will not go more than a year or two without buying a new one. Within those groups, there are those that buy both high-end and low-end computers. As the manufacturing processes get more refined, the technologies originally created for high-end computers will eventually make it into the low-end computers and new technologies will be created for the high-end market. What it would lead to is a wider price gap between high and low end devices and less consistency on the hardware used in new devices since they will be catering to the various markets. You will just have to start paying attention to system requirements on resource hungry software if you buy a low-end device.
I know I definitely would buy my own phone if Verizon would offer a service discount.
probably anonymous. idiots to the core.
Great. Now Anonymous is going to DDOS Slashdot.
5 seconds? I'd say 5-10 minutes. Searching for that algorithm probably would take a lot longer than coding it...
True. Although, I was making the generous assumption that the "infringed" code was already pulled up.
Well, if you are flying at orbital speeds because you have the nose up there, it's about 40km of difference...
That is a different problem domain which uses a different scale of time intensity.
From yesterday; the Oracle lawyer was attempting to argue that Google profited by stealing rangeCheck since it allowed them to get to market faster than they would have had they wrote it from scratch.
Because 5 seconds make all the difference.
The only way I could condone privatizing parts of the internet is if government stopped giving special privileges to ISPs and allowed new ISPs to form. If ISP pay their own way, they can control their network. If they get special privileges from the government, they should be regulated.
That is why you buy the actual metal and not just a piece of paper that says "Gold" on it.
Honestly, a lot of these much delayed sequels are turning out to be a waste of time for players.
That is not completely true. SC2 was pretty awesome. I am still irritated that there is not LAN play though. I do agree that Blizzard needs to have shorter periods between games of a sequel. And Valve for that matter. I am still waiting for HL3.
Why do you assume the grandparents are intrusive? Perhaps the parents like the fact that the grandparents are taking an regular and active role in their child's life.
They make cases for various tablets that are already pretty drool proof. Laptops don't have such a benefit. I guess you could put a keyboard cover on the laptop but a kid is likely to just take it off (and try eating it.) I bought a gumdrop case for my Asus Transformer. It doubles the weight of the device but if you are just going to mount it to an arm or something, I don't really see how it matters how much the tablet weighs.
That is a little extreme. Besides. that will just cause them to use a different program.
That means they have a major head start over anyone else who want to implement the idea.
Machines, like dogs, do not have 100% uptime, detection, or trigger rates. As for target coverage, they are already bottlenecking everyone through a predetermined path. They don't need 100% coverage. Bomb-sniffing dogs and metal detector are good enough. Besides, there are already machines that will act like bomb-sniffing dogs if you want a little extra probability of detecting a bomb.
Just imagine how bad it must have been before there was a Facebook, and there was no way to let another person know about such important news and emergencies!
In comparison to Facebook and possibly group email, the other methods were vastly inefficient when trying to reach a large group of people. Each communication technology has a place. I wouldn't use Facebook for highly private/sensitive communication but it does have its uses.
You could have sent an email to a bunch of people. I hear that works.
I doubt a nice chunk of the people I know even use personal email on a regular basis. I used to go several days to over a week between email logins. Now that I have a smartphone, I see my emails as they come in.
Does this even matter that much? Ideas are nearly worthless until they are actually practiced/produced. An idea for an amazing new device does not put one in anyone's hand. It is a starting point and goal. Besides, all of the ideas that are public on Kickstarter are there because they have yet to be implemented. They are there because ideas are cheap but their realization is not.
I recently moved to MATE as my window manager but configuring it is frustrating more than anything. I don't like the choice. I just want to be told what the options are and deal with those and then use my computer to work rather than work on configuring my computer.
The best option for the configuration of any software is to be given a short list of standard presets with the option of customizing further. The average person will stick with the preset but the rest of us will not be annoyed when we can't get the settings the way we want.
You want to perpetually beam a highly focused energy beam over long distance aimed at a relatively small target? If the angle is only slightly off, you would are risking running the beam through a town. I trust our nuclear energy technology a lot more than our ability to keep an huge array of satellites perfectly aimed.
I want to know why we have not gone nuclear across the nation. The latest nuclear fission technologies are a lot safer than most people believe. Renewable energy is a nice thought but it is not going to do it in the short term. Perhaps in the future when it is more advanced but not right now.
Barring formatting changes, considering the exception is different depending on the case, there would still need to be nine lines. I do wonder why they did not use the if/else construct though. I seems kind of wasteful to run checks on cases at are no longer possible.
It would be regulating company transparency rather than markets. Treat only criminals like criminals. We should not treat all companies as criminals because they are not all criminal. Besides, for important stuff like medicine, most companies will want to have independent certification in order to get people to trust them. If there is a brand new drug out that has barely been tested and has not been independently certified, it would throw up a red flag in my mind. That said, why should I not be able to take it if I so choose? It would be a voluntary transaction. Why would the company be responsible if bad things happen to me unless they knew there was a chance of it happening and did not bother to tell me before giving me the drug?
Not only that but the function is so simple that it could have been a complete accident.
Shortening to ".sec" is not a good idea - on a QWERTY keyboard the C and X keys are next to each other and grandma cannot be trusted to avoid typos...
I thought the new domain for that stuff was .xxx?