I'm a grumpy old man, see my UID, and I have an iPhone 7 and I still use an old iPhone 4 when travelling ( I don't mind losing it ). Not all grumpy old men have bad eyesight.
"Does anyone want their div by zero errors to result in anything other than zero?". I think the answer is yes, a divide by zero is NOT zero, it is an error. I would like my divide by zero to generate an error.
The liability shift for chip and PIN cards is scheduled for October this year in the US. Although the guestimates vary, probably around 20% of merchants will have an EMV (chip) reader by this time. When chip and PIN was introduced into Europe, there was a sharp increase in credit card fraud in non-chip regions (Canada for example), and when Canada introduced chip and PIN we noticed a sharp decrease in fraud, which we assume was moved into the US.
The article explains that the light extraction is increased from 3% to 60%. This is a factor of 20 increase in light output. So compared to a "normal" LED, this new technology is actually 2000% more efficient.
As most of the world has moved to EMV smart cards to reduce fraud (the US still has to move), this is a "solution" to a problem that doesn't exist for most of us. Also, the EMV standard already supports multiple applications on a chip card.
This sounds similar to some of the problems that Steve Mann has run into. He has been experimenting with augmented reality headsets since 1980 and has documented quite a few incidents before and been on slashdot before.
I believe that the issue you are referring to is the radiated emissions from cathode ray tube (CRT) screens. As these are all but obsolete now, this should no longer be a problem.
Looking at the wiki page and the Government of Canada Justice department web site http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/C-42/page-5.html#anchorbo-ga:l_VIII it looks like copying for private use is NOT piracy. "Copying for Private Use... onto an audio recording medium for the private use of the person who makes the copy does not constitute an infringement of the copyright in the musical work, the performer’s performance or the sound recording."
I guess it's not the file sharers the US doesn't like, it's the Canadian government.
We thought it was in 1998 when we did it with our InnMail system http://www.thefreelibrary.com/AlphaNet+Hospitality+Systems+and+Loews+Hotels+Expand+Long+Standing...-a020787415
We had a fax server service that converted e-mail's to faxes. Anyone subscribing to our system received a dedicated e-mail address and a dedicated fax number. This could be forwarded to any fax machine where ever you were.
We finally discontinued the service last year.
It's interesting that in the Canadian Apple Stores, the sales assistants use the Fujitsu iPad http://solutions.us.fujitsu.com/downloads/retail/DS_IPAD.pdf if you wish to pay by credit card and have your receipt e-mailed to you (you don't need to line up at a cashier)
In Canada I use Rogers as my Palm Treo and iPhone service provider, and as Rogers IS a greedy phone company I didn't expect them to allow tethering (so I use PDAnet on my iPhone), but now that the 3GS iPhone is out, Rogers seem to be quite open about allowing it.
From Rogers FAQ about the iPhone:- (scroll down to Tethering FAQs)
Can I tether on my iPhone?
To use tethering or wireless modem functionality you require the new iPhone 3G S, or an iPhone 3G that has been upgraded with the new iPhone OS 3.0 software. Until December 31, 2009, if you have subscribed to a data plan which includes at least 1GB of data you may use tethering as part of the volume of data included in your plan at no additional charge. Tethering cannot be used with data plans of less then 1GB.
Is it just me? I didn't find the joke "Could not connect to user database: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (11)" particularly funny.
That's basically what the coulumb counter does. Once we calibrate for the basic capacity of the battery, the coulumb counter tracks the current (no pun intended) status of the terminal. Some of these counters include temperature sensors that may be used to help protect against overcharging (the battery may heat up rapidly when charged) and for the reduced capacity when the battery is cold. (See the comment by by Calinous (985536) below).
As a manufacturer of portable data terminals, we always seem to spend an excessive amount of time in attempting to get a better indication of the amount of power left in a battery. Each battery chemistry has it's own set of rules and the rules tend to change as the battery ages.
One of the better methods is to use a coulumb counter that attempts to measure the power put into a battery against the power removed from the battery. See http://www.linear.com/pc/productDetail.jsp?navId=H0,C1,C1003,C1037,C1134,P2354 for a typical device. Even using these, we only seem to be able to approach something that doesn't suck.
One of our devices has a tilt sensor, so I may try to impliment the sloshing sound as well as our normal battery icon on the display.
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I'm a grumpy old man, see my UID, and I have an iPhone 7 and I still use an old iPhone 4 when travelling ( I don't mind losing it ). Not all grumpy old men have bad eyesight.
"Does anyone want their div by zero errors to result in anything other than zero?". I think the answer is yes, a divide by zero is NOT zero, it is an error. I would like my divide by zero to generate an error.
The liability shift for chip and PIN cards is scheduled for October this year in the US. Although the guestimates vary, probably around 20% of merchants will have an EMV (chip) reader by this time. When chip and PIN was introduced into Europe, there was a sharp increase in credit card fraud in non-chip regions (Canada for example), and when Canada introduced chip and PIN we noticed a sharp decrease in fraud, which we assume was moved into the US.
The article explains that the light extraction is increased from 3% to 60%. This is a factor of 20 increase in light output. So compared to a "normal" LED, this new technology is actually 2000% more efficient.
As most of the world has moved to EMV smart cards to reduce fraud (the US still has to move), this is a "solution" to a problem that doesn't exist for most of us. Also, the EMV standard already supports multiple applications on a chip card.
This sounds similar to some of the problems that Steve Mann has run into. He has been experimenting with augmented reality headsets since 1980 and has documented quite a few incidents before and been on slashdot before.
No, EU refers to the European Union See EU in Wikipedia of which Switzerland is not a member.
From the article "It features an 800MHz ARM SOC", so no, it's not x86
I believe that the issue you are referring to is the radiated emissions from cathode ray tube (CRT) screens. As these are all but obsolete now, this should no longer be a problem.
Looking at the wiki page and the Government of Canada Justice department web site http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/C-42/page-5.html#anchorbo-ga:l_VIII it looks like copying for private use is NOT piracy. "Copying for Private Use ... onto an audio recording medium for the private use of the person who makes the copy does not constitute an infringement of the copyright in the musical work, the performer’s performance or the sound recording."
I guess it's not the file sharers the US doesn't like, it's the Canadian government.
Toronto has a snow melter as part of it's fleet of snow clearing equipment. See http://www.toronto.ca/transportation/snow/torontomelt.htm
We thought it was in 1998 when we did it with our InnMail system http://www.thefreelibrary.com/AlphaNet+Hospitality+Systems+and+Loews+Hotels+Expand+Long+Standing...-a020787415 We had a fax server service that converted e-mail's to faxes. Anyone subscribing to our system received a dedicated e-mail address and a dedicated fax number. This could be forwarded to any fax machine where ever you were. We finally discontinued the service last year.
It's interesting that in the Canadian Apple Stores, the sales assistants use the Fujitsu iPad http://solutions.us.fujitsu.com/downloads/retail/DS_IPAD.pdf if you wish to pay by credit card and have your receipt e-mailed to you (you don't need to line up at a cashier)
There are many more translations on the site http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm
My hovercraft is full of eels
From Rogers FAQ about the iPhone:- (scroll down to Tethering FAQs)
Can I tether on my iPhone?
To use tethering or wireless modem functionality you require the new iPhone 3G S, or an iPhone 3G that has been upgraded with the new iPhone OS 3.0 software. Until December 31, 2009, if you have subscribed to a data plan which includes at least 1GB of data you may use tethering as part of the volume of data included in your plan at no additional charge. Tethering cannot be used with data plans of less then 1GB.
The "new" system is the EMVCo Smart Card (CHIP and PIN), and most of the western world already has this in place since 1999.
For some reason, the US believes that check (cheque) and credit card fraud is still manageable.
See EMVCo FAQ and Wikipedia CHIP and PIN
Is it just me? I didn't find the joke "Could not connect to user database: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (11)" particularly funny.
There's also Dexter http://anybots.com/dexterwalks.html that seems to resist a good poke. Dexter can also jump without falling over.
That's basically what the coulumb counter does. Once we calibrate for the basic capacity of the battery, the coulumb counter tracks the current (no pun intended) status of the terminal. Some of these counters include temperature sensors that may be used to help protect against overcharging (the battery may heat up rapidly when charged) and for the reduced capacity when the battery is cold. (See the comment by by Calinous (985536) below).
One of the better methods is to use a coulumb counter that attempts to measure the power put into a battery against the power removed from the battery. See http://www.linear.com/pc/productDetail.jsp?navId=H0,C1,C1003,C1037,C1134,P2354 for a typical device. Even using these, we only seem to be able to approach something that doesn't suck.
One of our devices has a tilt sensor, so I may try to impliment the sloshing sound as well as our normal battery icon on the display.
From the beluga-group web site http://www.beluga-group.com/News.345.0.html?&cHash=34703c1f65&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=338 "With the new propulsion system the fuel costs can be reduced by 10 - 15percent".
So I don't know where the parent got the 50% savings figure from.
Which release of Unix are they moving to? Would that be an SCO Unix (System V Release 3.2) or SCO UnixWare (System V Release 4) :-)
See http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/news/c20032004fs-e.html for the list from copyright board of Canada.
From the Copyright Board of Canada's web site http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/news/c20032004fs-e.html the following forms of blank recording media are subject to the levy:-
Analog Audio Cassette Tapes:
CD-R and CD-RW:
CD-R Audio and CD-RW Audio:
MiniDisc:
Non-Removable Memory Permanently Embedded in a Digital Audio Recorder: