I can't imagine anyone using them to light a well-decorated interior or do anything else, really. Switching to an incandescent is like a breath of fresh air, even my wife can notice after adapting to those horrible, horrible phosphor emissions. Human eyes are adapted to looking at black body radiators.
Yet architects and decorators have been utilizing fluorescent lights for decades in commercial and industrial settings.
I personally find incandescents to be far, far too yellow. Give me a 'bright white' CFL any day.
Then there is crunchy bit of FUD, which fails to mention that more than a few of those accidents are also associated with extreme control surface movements (inducing extreme stresses) prior to the failure.
Incidentally, those are exactly the kind of accidents that fly-by-wire systems with flight envelope protection (like every Airbus aircraft) are supposed to prevent.
Which tells me exactly how much networking hardware you've actually worked with, so let me fill you in - ISCSI not working? Set all adaptors to 1000/Full. Backup Exec not working? Set all adaptors to 1000/Full. Network generally slow? Set all adaptors to 1000/Full.
Let me fill you in - if auto-negotiation is failing, there's something wrong with your hardware or cabling. Forcing your adapters to a specific setting just makes the problem less visible - you still have the same shitty defective adapters/switches or bad cabling.
It's amazing that millions of devices - most of which are based on cheapshit hardware - can interoperate at all.
There might also be emi problems with induced magnetic fields in the CTS pedal assembly which detects induced emf as acceleration since it relies on induced emf to operate in the first place and is made of plastic. replacing with conventional denso rather than cts will also help.
Actually, the CTS pedal has more metal than the Denso pedal, which is almost entirely plastic.
I can get 22/5 or 50/10 from Comcast today. I have 12/2 because it's cheaper and because I don't give a crap about downloading Fedora DVDs in 10 minutes instead of 30.
Pretty much every place I've lived in the US has had at least two providers - DSL and cable. Additionally there are wireless ISPs that are becoming competitive (using 802.16), both national and regional.
Comcast has not, to my knowledge, raised broadband rates. They have repeatedly increased bandwidth. I started in 2001 with 1.5/256k; now I have 12/2 for the same price.
We could compare costs, but you don't want to get into that game. I could just as easily point out the fact that you pay far more for electricity, gas, and most consumer goods.
I'm paying $25/mo right now for 12/2. 22/5 would run $45/mo. These are promotional rates; the normal rate for 22/5 is around $65/mo.
Qwest also offers 20/10 and 40/10 VDSL2 in my area, but they are more expensive than Comcast.
To anyone who thinks TiVo's patent is trivial: go read it.
Implementing simultaneous recording and playback, with quick seeking to any point in the stream, and doing so with a very low-cost system (in TiVo's case, originally a 50MHz PowerPC) is not at all trivial.
There's more than one way to implement such functionality in hardware, but TiVo found a way that was cheap and effective before Echostar did, and Echostar didn't bother to license TiVo's patent or find another method.
Actually knowing a bit about jafo and the setup at PyCon, I can tell you exactly what's wrong with your idea: money.
The IEEE/ACM SuperComputing trade show's network (SCinet) does exactly what you say. They also have 10,000 attendees, over 50 people working on the network, a decent budget, and a ton of donated gear and bandwidth.
PyCon (and jafo) don't have $100k to spend on the network. That means that you have to make do with low-cost commodity hardware. The fact that the network can stay up and deliver acceptable quality of service is a testament to jafo's experience.
Building a conference wireless network that works when you buy gear designed for that purpose isn't particularly notable. Building a conference wireless network that fails miserably with consumer-level gear isn't particularly notable.
Building a conference wireless network that works with consumer-level gear on a shoestring budget *is* notable.
A 500 buck drone, capable of carrying 250g of c4, with a range of 5 km and an endurance of 30 minutes, could bring a country to its knees.
Blowing up a power plant or disrupting a power grid doesn't bring us to our knees. We've had massive power outages, we've had plants shut down unexpectedly, we've had days where the market was closed, and we've had days where TV and radio were out.
There are too many people and too much stuff to take out with a few attacks.
Deep Blue had its occasional moment where it did something really brilliant that no person was likely to have ever considered, but even that's only after having consumed centuries of human knowledge to reach that point.
Yeah, because you know the best Chess players play only completely original openings, never study classical tactics, and don't look at the play styles of their opponents.
Computers today are so far beyond humans in Chess that it's not even funny.
With su you give full control over the root account, with sudo you need to write it every time you require root account.
I like UAC, and I'm kind of an MS fanboy, but that's just wrong. There are solutions like gksudo that work much like UAC, including a user-friendly GUI and caching of credentials. Not to mention PolicyKit and other capability-based security mechanisms. Every major distro (e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.) has these features by default.
RoughlyDrafted is nothing but an Apple apologist site. This is the same site that told us why we didn't want apps on the original iPhone (never mind that apps have now made the iPhone a huge success), how Android was doomed to fail (despite the fact that it's taken a significant share of the smartphone market in under two years), and how the iPad doesn't need HDMI (apparently a VGA output that does 1024x768 is a good substitute).
To RoughlyDrafted, any problem with an Apple product is a problem with us, not with the product. No apps? We don't really want them. No HDMI? We didn't really need that anyway. No real multitasking? We didn't want that either because it opens the door to "viruses and spyware that run in the background".
What a bunch of crap. Not even Mossberg is that bad.
It's easy to have an average of 50Mbps when your numbers are totally made up. A significant part of the US "gap" in broadband speeds appears to be that our providers lie less about how much bandwidth we really have.
This is happening at my university (University of Colorado), except that we selected Microsoft. Both Microsoft and Google offer this service free of charge. I'm not entirely sure why Microsoft won the contract, but I know that the person in charge of the selection process is actually a big Linux/FOSS fan, so there must have been some compelling reason.
Frankly, it can't happen soon enough. The university is not in the business of running email - they're in the business of providing education. If email services that are higher in quality can be offered for a lower cost, it just makes sense. Privacy, ownership, and other details are dealt through during the negotiating process. As with the power company, the phone company, or the cable company, the university has a binding contract that prevents things like Google/Microsoft unilaterally shutting off service. Additionally, the service will be advertisement free.
Echelon, to my knowledge, does not involve the active breaching of private systems. That's the difference. If you have evidence that US government supported entities have actively breached private companies in China, I'd like to hear it.
But at least when it comes to hardware, we're willing to throw everything away and start from scratch.
Is that why I'm using a pipelined, out-of-order implementation of a 64-bit extension to a 32-bit extension of a 16-bit ISA?
I mean, shit, my Core 2 Duo supports everything from 128-bit vector instructions to segmented addressing. I have USB and PCI Express busses on my ThinkPad, but also CardBus/PCMCIA and a modem. I have Gigabit Ethernet but it is still compatible with 10Base-T. I have a DVI port (through the dock) but also a VGA port. My DVD-RW will read CDs which are 30 years old.
The best part is that you can hear the difference between AMR-FR (or EFR) and AMR-HR. And of course you can tell that a call or text is about to come in before your phone rings/vibrates, which is also fun.
Li-Ion batteries decay faster at 100% SOC, and faster at higher temperatures. Both of these are likely conditions for a laptop that's plugged in all the time.
Let's say that I'm in some place where the speed 85 mph is legal. I can nudge my cruise control speed lever and my speed barely goes up, say from 80 to 81.I nudge at again and again, up to 83. Then I nudge it again and the car takes off, no speed limit. Nudging the cruise speed control lever down has no effect until I've done it about 10 times or more. By then my Prius is doing 97. It's scary because it's so wrong and so out of your normal control. I tested this over and over the night I observed it.
This is EXACTLY the kind of behavior that would occur if the switch were to fail in the "speed up - closed" position. You can replicate this by holding up on the speed control switch.
Skylab was still probably bigger in total volume than the ISS is today, as it nears completion.
Skylab was 77,000 kg; the ISS is 344,000 kg. I don't even have volume figures, but it's probably not even close unless the ISS is extremely dense compared to Skylab.
The US has now essentially ceded manned spaceflight to the Russians and the Chinese
No, NASA has ceded LEO light lift capability to private entities, which are already quite capable in this role.
The way this ought to work is that there should be two different sensors in the pedal, and they should be of different types, like one resistive pot and one Hall-effect transducer.
There are two sensors in every Toyota accelerator position sensor.
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Yet architects and decorators have been utilizing fluorescent lights for decades in commercial and industrial settings.
I personally find incandescents to be far, far too yellow. Give me a 'bright white' CFL any day.
Incidentally, those are exactly the kind of accidents that fly-by-wire systems with flight envelope protection (like every Airbus aircraft) are supposed to prevent.
Let me fill you in - if auto-negotiation is failing, there's something wrong with your hardware or cabling. Forcing your adapters to a specific setting just makes the problem less visible - you still have the same shitty defective adapters/switches or bad cabling.
It's amazing that millions of devices - most of which are based on cheapshit hardware - can interoperate at all.
Actually, the CTS pedal has more metal than the Denso pedal, which is almost entirely plastic.
I can get 22/5 or 50/10 from Comcast today. I have 12/2 because it's cheaper and because I don't give a crap about downloading Fedora DVDs in 10 minutes instead of 30.
Pretty much every place I've lived in the US has had at least two providers - DSL and cable. Additionally there are wireless ISPs that are becoming competitive (using 802.16), both national and regional.
Comcast has not, to my knowledge, raised broadband rates. They have repeatedly increased bandwidth. I started in 2001 with 1.5/256k; now I have 12/2 for the same price.
We could compare costs, but you don't want to get into that game. I could just as easily point out the fact that you pay far more for electricity, gas, and most consumer goods.
I'm paying $25/mo right now for 12/2. 22/5 would run $45/mo. These are promotional rates; the normal rate for 22/5 is around $65/mo.
Qwest also offers 20/10 and 40/10 VDSL2 in my area, but they are more expensive than Comcast.
To anyone who thinks TiVo's patent is trivial: go read it.
Implementing simultaneous recording and playback, with quick seeking to any point in the stream, and doing so with a very low-cost system (in TiVo's case, originally a 50MHz PowerPC) is not at all trivial.
There's more than one way to implement such functionality in hardware, but TiVo found a way that was cheap and effective before Echostar did, and Echostar didn't bother to license TiVo's patent or find another method.
That wouldn't happen to be the system I sold you, would it?
Actually knowing a bit about jafo and the setup at PyCon, I can tell you exactly what's wrong with your idea: money.
The IEEE/ACM SuperComputing trade show's network (SCinet) does exactly what you say. They also have 10,000 attendees, over 50 people working on the network, a decent budget, and a ton of donated gear and bandwidth.
PyCon (and jafo) don't have $100k to spend on the network. That means that you have to make do with low-cost commodity hardware. The fact that the network can stay up and deliver acceptable quality of service is a testament to jafo's experience.
Building a conference wireless network that works when you buy gear designed for that purpose isn't particularly notable.
Building a conference wireless network that fails miserably with consumer-level gear isn't particularly notable.
Building a conference wireless network that works with consumer-level gear on a shoestring budget *is* notable.
Blowing up a power plant or disrupting a power grid doesn't bring us to our knees. We've had massive power outages, we've had plants shut down unexpectedly, we've had days where the market was closed, and we've had days where TV and radio were out.
There are too many people and too much stuff to take out with a few attacks.
Yeah, because you know the best Chess players play only completely original openings, never study classical tactics, and don't look at the play styles of their opponents.
Computers today are so far beyond humans in Chess that it's not even funny.
Considering that only about 1% of Iranians speak Arabic, I'm not sure that's much of a problem for this website.
I like UAC, and I'm kind of an MS fanboy, but that's just wrong. There are solutions like gksudo that work much like UAC, including a user-friendly GUI and caching of credentials. Not to mention PolicyKit and other capability-based security mechanisms. Every major distro (e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.) has these features by default.
RoughlyDrafted is nothing but an Apple apologist site. This is the same site that told us why we didn't want apps on the original iPhone (never mind that apps have now made the iPhone a huge success), how Android was doomed to fail (despite the fact that it's taken a significant share of the smartphone market in under two years), and how the iPad doesn't need HDMI (apparently a VGA output that does 1024x768 is a good substitute).
To RoughlyDrafted, any problem with an Apple product is a problem with us, not with the product. No apps? We don't really want them. No HDMI? We didn't really need that anyway. No real multitasking? We didn't want that either because it opens the door to "viruses and spyware that run in the background".
What a bunch of crap. Not even Mossberg is that bad.
My source says 7.9Mbps:
http://www.akamai.com/dl/whitepapers/Akamai_State_Internet_Q3_2009.pdf?curl=/dl/whitepapers/Akamai_State_Internet_Q3_2009.pdf&solcheck=1&ver=1&
It's easy to have an average of 50Mbps when your numbers are totally made up. A significant part of the US "gap" in broadband speeds appears to be that our providers lie less about how much bandwidth we really have.
This is happening at my university (University of Colorado), except that we selected Microsoft. Both Microsoft and Google offer this service free of charge. I'm not entirely sure why Microsoft won the contract, but I know that the person in charge of the selection process is actually a big Linux/FOSS fan, so there must have been some compelling reason.
Frankly, it can't happen soon enough. The university is not in the business of running email - they're in the business of providing education. If email services that are higher in quality can be offered for a lower cost, it just makes sense. Privacy, ownership, and other details are dealt through during the negotiating process. As with the power company, the phone company, or the cable company, the university has a binding contract that prevents things like Google/Microsoft unilaterally shutting off service. Additionally, the service will be advertisement free.
Echelon, to my knowledge, does not involve the active breaching of private systems. That's the difference. If you have evidence that US government supported entities have actively breached private companies in China, I'd like to hear it.
Better tell the hard drive manufacturers. Or the flash drive manufacturers. Or the DVD or Blu-ray associations. Or Mac OS X. Or the IEEE. Or the ACM.
A gigabyte is 1000 megabytes in pretty much every case except Windows and byte-addressed memory (NOR flash and DRAM).
Is that why I'm using a pipelined, out-of-order implementation of a 64-bit extension to a 32-bit extension of a 16-bit ISA?
I mean, shit, my Core 2 Duo supports everything from 128-bit vector instructions to segmented addressing. I have USB and PCI Express busses on my ThinkPad, but also CardBus/PCMCIA and a modem. I have Gigabit Ethernet but it is still compatible with 10Base-T. I have a DVI port (through the dock) but also a VGA port. My DVD-RW will read CDs which are 30 years old.
The best part is that you can hear the difference between AMR-FR (or EFR) and AMR-HR. And of course you can tell that a call or text is about to come in before your phone rings/vibrates, which is also fun.
Are you seriously linking to RoughlyDrafted, a site that makes Mossberg look tame as an Apple fanboy?
Li-Ion batteries decay faster at 100% SOC, and faster at higher temperatures. Both of these are likely conditions for a laptop that's plugged in all the time.
This is EXACTLY the kind of behavior that would occur if the switch were to fail in the "speed up - closed" position. You can replicate this by holding up on the speed control switch.
Skylab was 77,000 kg; the ISS is 344,000 kg. I don't even have volume figures, but it's probably not even close unless the ISS is extremely dense compared to Skylab.
No, NASA has ceded LEO light lift capability to private entities, which are already quite capable in this role.
As it turns out, even a vehicle like the Prius has triple-redundant brakes and redundant sensors in the gas pedal.
There are two sensors in every Toyota accelerator position sensor.