We're a medium-sized city with a moderate residential population density, and have *no* good broadband options. Verizon doesn't plan to have FiOS working here until 2018 (seriously), and Comcast's service somehow manages to be a tiny bit worse than it is in the rest of the country. Thanks to our low-ish density, we also won't mind if you have to dig up the streets, especially since most of them need to be paved anyway. We've also got a very nice subway and rail network along which Google could run its backbone.
You'd think the telecoms would be bending over backward to impress the regulators, although the very opposite seems to be the case at the moment.
I never understood the hysterics about cameras in public places. If these cameras infringe upon your rights so severely, what about the numerous cameras located in every bank, convenience store, and supermarket on the planet? How are those any different?
Eventually, however, the robots reach the point where they are both functional and profitable for the government. Subsequently, Margaret Thatcher will be re-elected, and the robots will be privatized as Robocops, Plc, and will never work again.
Not necessarily. The law discusses unlawful revolution.
As far as I'm aware, every generation in our country has produced a revolution of sorts within the bounds of the law. Tis the beauty of having a democracy, and a constitution with a reasonable process of amendment.
We can have revolutions as often as we need/want, and nobody has to die.
Somewhere, there's an irony in this being passed by the state that was first to secede from the Union and instigate the Civil War.
Says the guy advertising a neo-nazi political group in his sig.
(Seriously, go on and look up the traditional definition of the "third position," and read through the A3P's political positions. I'm not calling them Nazis simply for the sake of being hyperbolic. They're one of the few groups that actually makes the law being discussed in TFA seem like a good idea.)
The guy who wrote this law is most likely an idiot with good intentions (preserving the integrity of the state). I'd guess that it was either written by a senile old guy, or an idiot who doesn't understand the full implications of the bill (see also: the tea party movement).
The constitution protects against people who are trying to subvert the democratic process intentionally or otherwise.
Here in DC, Verizon is the phone company, and they're not planning to completely roll out FiOS until 2018.
For most of us, Comcast is the only option, and almost everybody would be eager to jump ship. It's the slowest, most heavily restricted, and least reliable ISP I've ever used.
The TPM should give administrators time to disable credentials in the case of a stolen laptop. But "secret forever" was and probably shall ever remain a pipe dream.
Sure, it can be done. A One Time Pad offers theoretically perfect encryption, as long as you keep the pad separate from the message, and (as the name implies) only use the pad once.
Of course, there are many practical and logistical drawbacks to this approach, although if you want to keep something secret, OTP is definitely the way to go.
I live in a big city, so hopefully this shouldn't be too much of a problem.
That said...where have all of the ATSC tuner boxes gone? After posting that comment, I started researching my possible options, and discovered that there basically were none. Almost all of them have been discontinued, particularly if you want HDMI outputs.
Actually, I thought it was simple and to the point (something you don't see very much in Super Bowl ads).
I didn't watch the Superbowl (cable's out), and so far three friends have called me to tell me to watch this ad, while I haven't heard a peep about any of the other ads that aired. I'd qualify that as a pretty significant success.
Also consider that the ad's simplistic nature can be thought of as a reflection of Google's products. Apple's used same strategy very successfully while marketing the iPhone, albeit from a somewhat different angle.
I also wouldn't list Apple's '1984' as a particularly good ad. It was expensive, confusing, and made absolutely no mention of the product being advertised. My favorite super bowl ad is still the E-Trade monkey ad.
The fact that the receiver is in your house (if not even on your person) might well indicate an effect on the required power output from the transmitter.
Depending on the frequencies in question, not really. Microwave-band signals (such as Wi-Fi) require significantly more power to penetrate solid objects (ie. trees and walls).
Low-frequency signals, on the other hand, can go quite further from from a given amount of energy.
From what I remember, 4Motion does not necessarily refer to an AWD system with a torsen differential, although this has been the case in several instances (VW have also used a viscous coupling for AWD). Quattro, on the other hand, refers to a very specific set of technologies.
As far as the engines go, Audi make one of the better (if not the best) 2 Liter engines out there. They put most V6s to shame.
Actually, Apple seems to be politely and diplomatically enforcing its policies. Although it'd be nice for the app store approval process to get easier, would you have preferred them to have rejected the app outright instead?
Actually, you bring up a good point: They should have repeated the test on several different salmon. Who knows...perhaps the decomposition process of the brain tissue yields active voxels. Given that this guy was looking to point out flaws in the statistical methods used by fellow researchers, he really should have repeated the trials several times.
Besides...what scientist would miss an opportunity to perform additional "culinary post-processing" on their samples? With an n=10 sample size, you could throw a pretty great party.
ATMs in the UK don't charge fees (at least, they don't charge people with UK bank accounts) and the climate is much, much better.
As long as your bank back home doesn't charge for international ATM use, most UK ATMs don't charge a fee anyway. Definitely the easiest/cheapest way to get money overseas.
On the other hand, I'm not quite sure I agree with you about the weather....
Don't blame America for forking the language -- blame the English for having such bloody poor control over it. Prior to the 20th century, spelling and literacy weren't particularly high on anybody's priority lists.
Words were spelled phonetically, and when it came time to standardize, it was largely a matter of coincidence as to what got written down in which location.
I seem to remember that the current hypothesis is that window glass is sometimes a bit thicker along the bottom edge of ancient windows simply because it was easier for them to be made that way back in the day.
Facebook seems to be a poster child for PHP -- it started as a teeny-tiny site, and grew into one of the largest on the Internet without any major architectural changes or significant downtime. (In fact, I can't think of a single major outage in the 5 years that I've been using the site. Can't say the same for GMail or Slashdot.)
They might need 30,000 servers, but they're also supporting 250,000,000 users on some rather processor-hungry services. I imagine that the Photo application accounts for the bulk of the server farm.
I have plenty of 8mm videos from the same era that were shot with a consumer-grade camcorder.
Last year, I picked up an old broadcast-grade Hi8 VCR from eBay for $100, and almost all of the tapes play just fine, with decent enough quality (in fact, I'd venture to guess that they look a bit better thanks to modern interpolating and deinterlacing algorithms)
True, though this would have been a huge breakthrough 1-2 months ago. The paper you linked to was only published on Dec 30 of last year. Prior to that, we had a method to produce tiny flakes of graphene that required an inordinate amount of time, effort, luck, and scotch tape.
Also, graphene would be a lot more useful to us if we could produce it inexpensively on a silicon substrate. The copper substrate stuff is a huge step forward, but we'd ideally like to end up being able to directly grow graphene on silicon.
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What about Washington DC?
We're a medium-sized city with a moderate residential population density, and have *no* good broadband options. Verizon doesn't plan to have FiOS working here until 2018 (seriously), and Comcast's service somehow manages to be a tiny bit worse than it is in the rest of the country. Thanks to our low-ish density, we also won't mind if you have to dig up the streets, especially since most of them need to be paved anyway. We've also got a very nice subway and rail network along which Google could run its backbone.
You'd think the telecoms would be bending over backward to impress the regulators, although the very opposite seems to be the case at the moment.
If you run a video editing studio employing 20 editors, $12,000 is pocket change.
This is part of the reason why Avid has survived so long, and can still justify its prices.
The more prudent question is to which side would K-9 be loyal to?
Failing that, I'm mildly convinced that Gwen Cooper's not a robot.
I never understood the hysterics about cameras in public places. If these cameras infringe upon your rights so severely, what about the numerous cameras located in every bank, convenience store, and supermarket on the planet? How are those any different?
Eventually, however, the robots reach the point where they are both functional and profitable for the government. Subsequently, Margaret Thatcher will be re-elected, and the robots will be privatized as Robocops, Plc, and will never work again.
Not necessarily. The law discusses unlawful revolution.
As far as I'm aware, every generation in our country has produced a revolution of sorts within the bounds of the law. Tis the beauty of having a democracy, and a constitution with a reasonable process of amendment.
We can have revolutions as often as we need/want, and nobody has to die.
I live "down here."
Only a few of us still call it that, and those who do are quickly being ostracized by mainstream culture.
The North vs. South argument is just about dead in the coastal states (at least in the cities)
Somewhere, there's an irony in this being passed by the state that was first to secede from the Union and instigate the Civil War.
Says the guy advertising a neo-nazi political group in his sig.
(Seriously, go on and look up the traditional definition of the "third position," and read through the A3P's political positions. I'm not calling them Nazis simply for the sake of being hyperbolic. They're one of the few groups that actually makes the law being discussed in TFA seem like a good idea.)
Hanlon's razor.
The guy who wrote this law is most likely an idiot with good intentions (preserving the integrity of the state). I'd guess that it was either written by a senile old guy, or an idiot who doesn't understand the full implications of the bill (see also: the tea party movement).
The constitution protects against people who are trying to subvert the democratic process intentionally or otherwise.
Here in DC, Verizon is the phone company, and they're not planning to completely roll out FiOS until 2018.
For most of us, Comcast is the only option, and almost everybody would be eager to jump ship. It's the slowest, most heavily restricted, and least reliable ISP I've ever used.
The TPM should give administrators time to disable credentials in the case of a stolen laptop. But "secret forever" was and probably shall ever remain a pipe dream.
Sure, it can be done. A One Time Pad offers theoretically perfect encryption, as long as you keep the pad separate from the message, and (as the name implies) only use the pad once.
Of course, there are many practical and logistical drawbacks to this approach, although if you want to keep something secret, OTP is definitely the way to go.
I live in a big city, so hopefully this shouldn't be too much of a problem.
That said...where have all of the ATSC tuner boxes gone? After posting that comment, I started researching my possible options, and discovered that there basically were none. Almost all of them have been discontinued, particularly if you want HDMI outputs.
Indeed. I don't have an ATSC box. I'll likely be getting an antenna and box one of these days, and hopefully canceling the cable.
Actually, I thought it was simple and to the point (something you don't see very much in Super Bowl ads).
I didn't watch the Superbowl (cable's out), and so far three friends have called me to tell me to watch this ad, while I haven't heard a peep about any of the other ads that aired. I'd qualify that as a pretty significant success.
Also consider that the ad's simplistic nature can be thought of as a reflection of Google's products. Apple's used same strategy very successfully while marketing the iPhone, albeit from a somewhat different angle.
I also wouldn't list Apple's '1984' as a particularly good ad. It was expensive, confusing, and made absolutely no mention of the product being advertised. My favorite super bowl ad is still the E-Trade monkey ad.
The fact that the receiver is in your house (if not even on your person) might well indicate an effect on the required power output from the transmitter.
Depending on the frequencies in question, not really. Microwave-band signals (such as Wi-Fi) require significantly more power to penetrate solid objects (ie. trees and walls).
Low-frequency signals, on the other hand, can go quite further from from a given amount of energy.
Actually, you could perform this peak just as easily with a Toyota:
1) Point the Toyota at the top of the mountain .....
2) Push down on the accelerator
3) Jump out the door.
4)
5) Profit
From what I remember, 4Motion does not necessarily refer to an AWD system with a torsen differential, although this has been the case in several instances (VW have also used a viscous coupling for AWD). Quattro, on the other hand, refers to a very specific set of technologies.
As far as the engines go, Audi make one of the better (if not the best) 2 Liter engines out there. They put most V6s to shame.
Actually, Apple seems to be politely and diplomatically enforcing its policies. Although it'd be nice for the app store approval process to get easier, would you have preferred them to have rejected the app outright instead?
Actually, you bring up a good point: They should have repeated the test on several different salmon. Who knows...perhaps the decomposition process of the brain tissue yields active voxels. Given that this guy was looking to point out flaws in the statistical methods used by fellow researchers, he really should have repeated the trials several times.
Besides...what scientist would miss an opportunity to perform additional "culinary post-processing" on their samples? With an n=10 sample size, you could throw a pretty great party.
ATMs in the UK don't charge fees (at least, they don't charge people with UK bank accounts) and the climate is much, much better.
As long as your bank back home doesn't charge for international ATM use, most UK ATMs don't charge a fee anyway. Definitely the easiest/cheapest way to get money overseas.
On the other hand, I'm not quite sure I agree with you about the weather....
Don't blame America for forking the language -- blame the English for having such bloody poor control over it. Prior to the 20th century, spelling and literacy weren't particularly high on anybody's priority lists.
Words were spelled phonetically, and when it came time to standardize, it was largely a matter of coincidence as to what got written down in which location.
I seem to remember that the current hypothesis is that window glass is sometimes a bit thicker along the bottom edge of ancient windows simply because it was easier for them to be made that way back in the day.
Occam's razor gets you every time.
Facebook seems to be a poster child for PHP -- it started as a teeny-tiny site, and grew into one of the largest on the Internet without any major architectural changes or significant downtime. (In fact, I can't think of a single major outage in the 5 years that I've been using the site. Can't say the same for GMail or Slashdot.)
They might need 30,000 servers, but they're also supporting 250,000,000 users on some rather processor-hungry services. I imagine that the Photo application accounts for the bulk of the server farm.
I have plenty of 8mm videos from the same era that were shot with a consumer-grade camcorder.
Last year, I picked up an old broadcast-grade Hi8 VCR from eBay for $100, and almost all of the tapes play just fine, with decent enough quality (in fact, I'd venture to guess that they look a bit better thanks to modern interpolating and deinterlacing algorithms)
True, though this would have been a huge breakthrough 1-2 months ago. The paper you linked to was only published on Dec 30 of last year. Prior to that, we had a method to produce tiny flakes of graphene that required an inordinate amount of time, effort, luck, and scotch tape.
Also, graphene would be a lot more useful to us if we could produce it inexpensively on a silicon substrate. The copper substrate stuff is a huge step forward, but we'd ideally like to end up being able to directly grow graphene on silicon.