Do you speak English? Words have meanings and just because some marketing droid decides to deceive you by bending a definition to the point of absurdity doesn't make it right or legal.
Any society depends on cooperation and sharing of resources. You can manufacture outrage that your "unlimited" plan is actually limited...
I expect to get what I pay for, and what a company advertises. No more, no less. I'm no precious snowflake demanding "my own cell tower", I just want to be able to use what I pay for. If I pay for "Unlimited" anything, I do not expect to be cut off after X hours of high usage. It isn't my problem that internet providers have over-provisioned and over-promised to the point of absurdity. Promise less and deliver on that promise - that's all I ask.
US gallon or imperial gallon? And you can run up to 44 metric tons? (97000 / 2.205 ~= 44000 kg) I think the normal limit in the US is 80,000 lbs/36280 kg).
His name has always evoked in my mind the image of an Italian tailor saying (after mending a portly gentleman's pants for the nth time) "You rippa dees, I break-a your face!"
The OP does have some valid points. His scenario involves bit banging in the application, not the OS. Task switching delays, swapping, non-granular timers, and other delays can lead to very odd behavior.
Your example of the SPI device driver is not exactly valid - it represents an SPI master device. SPI master mode is not timing sensitive, so delays in bit-banging the clock out don't matter. You could delay the clock transitions randomly and as long as the data is present and you don't exceed the max clock speed, the SPI interface will work.
And before you claim I'm talking nonsense, I used to be a lead dev for a multi-user, multitasking hard realtime OS that was written entirely in assembler (close to a million lines). We guaranteed interrupt latency figures to your application, not just the OS.
Can you spell "I didn't agree to the arbitration clause because I didn't accept the EULA"? There are plenty of reasons for the EULA to be challenged in court that don't stem from accepting it (after-the-sale contract, etc).
There are already a bazillion users in this band. Aside from the ISM devices, Amateur radio has an allocation in the 902-928 MHz band, and although we must accept interference from ISM devices, we can run 1500W legally and ISM devices must accept interference from us. I doubt IoT devices will play well with that kind of power.
I had a 2 socket Pentium 233 MMX Motherboard way back in the day (199x). I ran SETI on it and reported back to the mother ship over an ISDN line. Really racked up those work units.
That must've been the same 300/600LPI printer that was sold with the "Perkin-Elmer" or "Concurrent Computer" badge on it. Was it a tractor-fed band printer from the 80's?
The Atlas V has had 60! successful launches in a row.
That's a mighty big number, 60 factorial. Approximately 8.3209871 x 10^81, in fact. That's not far off from the total number of elementary particles in the universe (10^86).
Even more directly, do you know who writes the National Electric Code that is generally adopted in toto by every state and local government? The NFPA - a group founded by insurance companies to get fire suppression sprinklers included in buildings to prevent fire deaths and property loss. They have over 300 standards now that are generally accepted as one of the gold standards in safety.
The plane I imagined consisted of a cockpit, airfoils, and a 'spine' that ran the length of the plane onto which modular, self-contained passenger or freight modules could be attached. The outer skin of the modules would form the surface of the 'fuselage' for drag reduction. In my design the passengers could board their particular module essentially in the terminal, and with some clever routing information modules could be swapped from plane to plane until their passengers reach their final destination. In case of emergency, each module would have its own parachute system and could be detached from the 'spine' as needed.
Well how would we go about treating them with dignity?
I'm an avid amateur radio operator, and even I understand that someone with that sort of mental illness should be given every opportunity to get psychological help. Naturally we should not give in to their demands, much like we'd never limit buildings to one story for all the acrophobics out there. They're helped to realize that their fears are unwarranted and are encouraged to work thru their fear. We should offer the same treatment to people with WiFi allergy delusions.
He's no chicken - he had the courage to voice his opinion, even though he's crowing on about nothing. His ideas are real turkeys, so we shouldn't egg him on. I suppose he considers his diatribe a feather in his cap.
The Cayman Islands trialled using a different GM technique to eradicate the local mosquito population. They used skeeters whose offspring require tetracycline to live. The wild population dropped by 80%.
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Do you speak English? Words have meanings and just because some marketing droid decides to deceive you by bending a definition to the point of absurdity doesn't make it right or legal.
Any society depends on cooperation and sharing of resources. You can manufacture outrage that your "unlimited" plan is actually limited ...
I expect to get what I pay for, and what a company advertises. No more, no less. I'm no precious snowflake demanding "my own cell tower", I just want to be able to use what I pay for. If I pay for "Unlimited" anything, I do not expect to be cut off after X hours of high usage. It isn't my problem that internet providers have over-provisioned and over-promised to the point of absurdity. Promise less and deliver on that promise - that's all I ask.
US gallon or imperial gallon? And you can run up to 44 metric tons? (97000 / 2.205 ~= 44000 kg) I think the normal limit in the US is 80,000 lbs/36280 kg).
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His name has always evoked in my mind the image of an Italian tailor saying (after mending a portly gentleman's pants for the nth time) "You rippa dees, I break-a your face!"
So this is unlimited to you?
Unlimited data even after all your high-speed 4G LTE data is used, at reduced speeds.
Unlimited would be "You can saturate your up- and download bandwidth at the agreed upon transfer rate 24x7x365".
Zero__Kelvin,
The OP does have some valid points. His scenario involves bit banging in the application, not the OS. Task switching delays, swapping, non-granular timers, and other delays can lead to very odd behavior.
Your example of the SPI device driver is not exactly valid - it represents an SPI master device. SPI master mode is not timing sensitive, so delays in bit-banging the clock out don't matter. You could delay the clock transitions randomly and as long as the data is present and you don't exceed the max clock speed, the SPI interface will work.
And before you claim I'm talking nonsense, I used to be a lead dev for a multi-user, multitasking hard realtime OS that was written entirely in assembler (close to a million lines). We guaranteed interrupt latency figures to your application, not just the OS.
Can you spell "arbitration clause?"
Can you spell "I didn't agree to the arbitration clause because I didn't accept the EULA"? There are plenty of reasons for the EULA to be challenged in court that don't stem from accepting it (after-the-sale contract, etc).
There are already a bazillion users in this band. Aside from the ISM devices, Amateur radio has an allocation in the 902-928 MHz band, and although we must accept interference from ISM devices, we can run 1500W legally and ISM devices must accept interference from us. I doubt IoT devices will play well with that kind of power.
Look into how HDFS works it's the filesystem underlying Hadoop.
Socrates once said that the only wisdom he had was in understanding how little he knew.
Socrates also agreed that "All we are is dust in the wind, dude."
I had a 2 socket Pentium 233 MMX Motherboard way back in the day (199x). I ran SETI on it and reported back to the mother ship over an ISDN line. Really racked up those work units.
That must've been the same 300/600LPI printer that was sold with the "Perkin-Elmer" or "Concurrent Computer" badge on it. Was it a tractor-fed band printer from the 80's?
Fascinating article re: Diabeetus type 2: http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...
The Atlas V has had 60! successful launches in a row.
That's a mighty big number, 60 factorial. Approximately 8.3209871 x 10^81, in fact. That's not far off from the total number of elementary particles in the universe (10^86).
Even more directly, do you know who writes the National Electric Code that is generally adopted in toto by every state and local government? The NFPA - a group founded by insurance companies to get fire suppression sprinklers included in buildings to prevent fire deaths and property loss. They have over 300 standards now that are generally accepted as one of the gold standards in safety.
Your 50 million estimate is probably spot-on. I didn't say my idea was unique, just old and obvious (making it not patent-worthy).
I had this idea 30 years ago.
The plane I imagined consisted of a cockpit, airfoils, and a 'spine' that ran the length of the plane onto which modular, self-contained passenger or freight modules could be attached. The outer skin of the modules would form the surface of the 'fuselage' for drag reduction. In my design the passengers could board their particular module essentially in the terminal, and with some clever routing information modules could be swapped from plane to plane until their passengers reach their final destination. In case of emergency, each module would have its own parachute system and could be detached from the 'spine' as needed.
Well how would we go about treating them with dignity?
I'm an avid amateur radio operator, and even I understand that someone with that sort of mental illness should be given every opportunity to get psychological help. Naturally we should not give in to their demands, much like we'd never limit buildings to one story for all the acrophobics out there. They're helped to realize that their fears are unwarranted and are encouraged to work thru their fear. We should offer the same treatment to people with WiFi allergy delusions.
Took a deice during a snowstorm in Bwi ...
Read that as taking a deuce. I wondered what part of a snowstorm scared the crap outta you.
A bit old-school, but how about Enya?
He's no chicken - he had the courage to voice his opinion, even though he's crowing on about nothing. His ideas are real turkeys, so we shouldn't egg him on. I suppose he considers his diatribe a feather in his cap.
*Fowl individual, indeed.
No simple download of spec sheets without giving them my life history and medical records? No sale. Sorry, Aquion.
Go read Seveneves.
The Cayman Islands trialled using a different GM technique to eradicate the local mosquito population. They used skeeters whose offspring require tetracycline to live. The wild population dropped by 80%.
You can get day-old chicks thru the post office. Your friend's bees are listed at the top of that same page.