Perhaps because Nintendo could buy the patents for almost nothing. If IA owes Nintendo 10 million and can't pay it, so they have a sheriff's sale to raise the money. Nintendo buys the patents for 7 million, get the money back as payment for the court judgement, and is still owed 3 million in case IA has any other assets.
So, isn't it obvious this is the problem he is running into? If his email address is F.M.Last(at)gmail, he will receive FMLast, F.MLast, FM.Last, FML.ast, etc.
I'm a little surprised Gmail will allow a new email account that has dotted username if they already have a user that receives all related dotted username variations.
Unfortunately, most of your citations are from discussions back in 2007 when a 5MP camera was state of the art.
Imaging sensors, digital signal processors, and optics have all improved substantially since then. I'm not saying the quality is an order of magnitude better, but some of those calculations might need to be reviewed.
You haven't given us enough information to agree or disagree with your conclusion. How have the fixtures saved you money? Do you need to turn the lights in the garage on every time you enter it? If your motion controlled lights turn on during daylight hours, isn't that wasting electricity? What about the energy needed to monitor the passive IR signal for the motion detection? If you don't go down into the basement for a week, why is it saving you electricity to monitor the staircase unnecessarily?
It seems like a simple light switch would do as well as your motion detection system and save you even more electricity. Or is there still more information you didn't post?
The other item is your statement that incandescent bulbs handle on/off cycling better than LEDs? Where did you get this information? Incandescent bulbs almost always fail during the initial power surge during turn on. LED bulbs last for 50,000 to 100,000 hours and don't have a problem with turning on and off. The LED driver circuit shouldn't have a problem either.
If a LED has a MTBF of 50,000 hours and you use your light 1 minute each and every day, your LED bulb would be expected to last over 8000 years. (50K*60/365=8219)
Most of these systems are alternative ways of authenticating to Windows, but not the only way. (Most of the biometric systems require an enrollment process that is optional.) Most people will still have an Administrator account that uses the traditional password method.
Not unless you can print a picture that will show different levels of reflection to the near-infrared wavelengths.
If you've seen a thermal images of a house showing where the heat loss is, compare that to the normal image of the house. This method is using the equivalent of a thermal image.
Why would they be paying an extra $4000 every two years?
That $4000 is the difference between the 13 SEER model and the 16 SEER model. He said he would recoup that money in two years, so every two years after that would be a savings of $4000, or $2000 every year by switching to the more efficient model.
Directional antennas are not new. But configuring an array of directional antennas to precisely cover the seats in the lecture hall to minimize the number of users on any single access point is a new and novel way to deploy wireless access.
Deploying the same number of omnidirectional antennas in the same space would lead to massive overlap, interference, and clients unnecessarily switching between APs when they perceived a stronger signal from a different AP.
I haven't heard of a high density environment purposely set up this way therefor I think it is indeed newsworthy.
* For example, schoolchildren having to cover their ears several times per hour due to the large number of painfully loud low-flying aircraft that pass endlessly pass overhead.
Citation? Where do Japanese schoolchildren have to cover their ears several times each hour? Where is this schoolhouse that can't be relocated from the end of some flightpath? This schoolhouse has been subject to some loud jet noise for over 50 years and they haven't moved it? Or is this an attempt to drum up some anti-military sentiment? (Wikipedia only lists 39 overseas Air Force locations not counting the ones closing in Afghanistan.)
Nothing was lost? All the work that the government workers could have been doing during the shutdown was lost. All the revenue from the National Parks were lost. Two weeks food inspections, drug inspections, VA claims processing were lost . Worldwide confidence in the US and the US dollar was lost. US credit rating was compromised with the possibility of higher interest rates on new deficit. Scientific tests will have to be thrown out and restarted.
You might not be personally affected, but plenty of money and confidence has been lost during the past three weeks.
Adding a copy of the referenced material would be allowed by the Fair Use provision of the Copyright law.
The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: [...] reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; [...] http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
And posting something on the internet does NOT automatically make it public domain. Just because you see it on a web page does not mean you are free to copy it.
Adding a copy of the referenced material would be allowed by the Fair Use provision of the Copyright law.
The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: [...] reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; [...] http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
Last night I sent my Gmail account an email from my ISP email system, then waited for it to show up. Nothing. So I resent it. Second time nothing.
The email contained two screen captures I needed at the office. The subject line was "Steve on telework". Nothing obvious that would trip Postini's spam filter. It is now 24 hours later and neither has shown up. I wonder how many other emails I don't get.
Why worry about this now? The festival most likely won't be held at Myrtle Edwards park next year anyway. It has grown too big for that location. Hempfest 2013
I also tried converting from PDF to EPUB. Sometimes the PDF isn't in a good condition and I get a very poor EPUB. If that happens, I convert PDF -> RTF, clean up and spell check in MS Word, then RTF -> EPUB.
This has let me fix over-large graphics, incorrect page breaks, constant spelling problems from the OCR, and font problems.
Why worry about printing carbon-copy type forms when you can just print the same page twice? I guess it depends if the multipart forms are cheaper than the plain paper and ink for the additional pages, but I wouldn't think so.
You still don't understand RP propagation. Having an antenna receive a signal does not diminish the strength of the signal behind it any more than a metal light pole diminishes it. Both will cause a slight disturbance in the transmitted signal, but the rest of the signal will still continue past it. You can't calculate how many devices are receiving an RF signal by measuring field strength at a fixed distance.
Think of throwing a pebble into a pond and watching the waves travel outward. If you put a stick in the water, it will disrupt the wave slightly, but the rest of the wave continues radiating outward. The small amount of energy that the stick receives is so miniscule compared to the total circular wave, it can be thought of as zero. (Well, if the stick is 10 feet away from the source it intersects a circle more than 60 feet in circumference. A one-inch stick would disrupt 1/750th of the circle. 20 feet away? 1/1500th of the total circumference.) Plus, RF propagates in three dimensions, not just two.
And your proof? You suggest putting enough barriers around the transmitting antenna to capture all the radiated energy to gain back more than you started with. First, you would never effectively capture it all, unless you built a Fariday Cage around the transmitter. Plus you ignore the power loss in converting the RF power back to electricity. You can't prove your point by suggesting if you are wrong we would have perpetual energy.
Every release or two, Microsoft creates a new file format.. it then takes the competitors 5 years to catch up at which time, MS releases a new file format.
Microsoft opened the barn doors when they pushed to have the office format declared an Open Standard. They were very nervous that other file formats would be declared the new preferred open format by governments and organizations trying to get away from closed, undocumented, and proprietary formats. This has allowed other office suites to accurately read and write documents in Microsoft's formats. If Microsoft now tries to change their format again, without documenting all the changes, they risk having the Office 2010 format declared the only supported file format users are allowed to use by many companies. Microsoft's last couple of releases have done nothing but change the UI or licensing terms without adding anything substantive.
The horse has left the barn and Microsoft will have a devil of a time getting it back in.
Stop spending trillions on "defense" and you can take care of the sick and elderly, educate the young, feed the hungry, pave the roads and repair the bridges., and still have enough left over to explore space.
Without that money spent on defense, you wouldn't have any sick, elderly, young, hungry, roads, or bridges to worry about.
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Perhaps because Nintendo could buy the patents for almost nothing. If IA owes Nintendo 10 million and can't pay it, so they have a sheriff's sale to raise the money. Nintendo buys the patents for 7 million, get the money back as payment for the court judgement, and is still owed 3 million in case IA has any other assets.
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So, isn't it obvious this is the problem he is running into? If his email address is F.M.Last(at)gmail, he will receive FMLast, F.MLast, FM.Last, FML.ast, etc.
I'm a little surprised Gmail will allow a new email account that has dotted username if they already have a user that receives all related dotted username variations.
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Unfortunately, most of your citations are from discussions back in 2007 when a 5MP camera was state of the art.
Imaging sensors, digital signal processors, and optics have all improved substantially since then. I'm not saying the quality is an order of magnitude better, but some of those calculations might need to be reviewed.
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So, was there a second pipeline for all the cash to flow back into Mexico?
You wouldn't want to interrupt the flow of drugs for something as inconsequential as cash.
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You haven't given us enough information to agree or disagree with your conclusion. How have the fixtures saved you money? Do you need to turn the lights in the garage on every time you enter it? If your motion controlled lights turn on during daylight hours, isn't that wasting electricity? What about the energy needed to monitor the passive IR signal for the motion detection? If you don't go down into the basement for a week, why is it saving you electricity to monitor the staircase unnecessarily?
It seems like a simple light switch would do as well as your motion detection system and save you even more electricity. Or is there still more information you didn't post?
The other item is your statement that incandescent bulbs handle on/off cycling better than LEDs? Where did you get this information? Incandescent bulbs almost always fail during the initial power surge during turn on. LED bulbs last for 50,000 to 100,000 hours and don't have a problem with turning on and off. The LED driver circuit shouldn't have a problem either.
If a LED has a MTBF of 50,000 hours and you use your light 1 minute each and every day, your LED bulb would be expected to last over 8000 years. (50K*60/365=8219)
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Most of these systems are alternative ways of authenticating to Windows, but not the only way. (Most of the biometric systems require an enrollment process that is optional.) Most people will still have an Administrator account that uses the traditional password method.
~~(Mod -1 for too many uses of the word "most")
Not unless you can print a picture that will show different levels of reflection to the near-infrared wavelengths.
If you've seen a thermal images of a house showing where the heat loss is, compare that to the normal image of the house. This method is using the equivalent of a thermal image.
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A good engineer believes in redundancy...
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Why would they be paying an extra $4000 every two years?
That $4000 is the difference between the 13 SEER model and the 16 SEER model. He said he would recoup that money in two years, so every two years after that would be a savings of $4000, or $2000 every year by switching to the more efficient model.
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Actually, it's 8M Pounds for the Petabyte...
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Directional antennas are not new. But configuring an array of directional antennas to precisely cover the seats in the lecture hall to minimize the number of users on any single access point is a new and novel way to deploy wireless access.
Deploying the same number of omnidirectional antennas in the same space would lead to massive overlap, interference, and clients unnecessarily switching between APs when they perceived a stronger signal from a different AP.
I haven't heard of a high density environment purposely set up this way therefor I think it is indeed newsworthy.
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* For example, schoolchildren having to cover their ears several times per hour due to the large number of painfully loud low-flying aircraft that pass endlessly pass overhead.
Citation? Where do Japanese schoolchildren have to cover their ears several times each hour? Where is this schoolhouse that can't be relocated from the end of some flightpath? This schoolhouse has been subject to some loud jet noise for over 50 years and they haven't moved it? Or is this an attempt to drum up some anti-military sentiment? (Wikipedia only lists 39 overseas Air Force locations not counting the ones closing in Afghanistan.)
And nothing of value was lost. Or gained.
Nothing was lost? All the work that the government workers could have been doing during the shutdown was lost. All the revenue from the National Parks were lost. Two weeks food inspections, drug inspections, VA claims processing were lost . Worldwide confidence in the US and the US dollar was lost. US credit rating was compromised with the possibility of higher interest rates on new deficit. Scientific tests will have to be thrown out and restarted.
You might not be personally affected, but plenty of money and confidence has been lost during the past three weeks.
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And posting something on the internet does NOT automatically make it public domain. Just because you see it on a web page does not mean you are free to copy it.
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That is a terrible version of the program!!! Almost unwatchable. Try this one instead: Richard Feynman - The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out
Wrong. They were labelled 13+ when that was the standard. When the standard changed to over 14, he changed the packaging to meet the new requirement.
He even offered a recall for any of the old 13+ packages. Of over 175,000 units sold, fewer than 50 were returned by consumers.
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Last night I sent my Gmail account an email from my ISP email system, then waited for it to show up. Nothing. So I resent it. Second time nothing.
The email contained two screen captures I needed at the office. The subject line was "Steve on telework". Nothing obvious that would trip Postini's spam filter. It is now 24 hours later and neither has shown up. I wonder how many other emails I don't get.
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Why worry about this now? The festival most likely won't be held at Myrtle Edwards park next year anyway. It has grown too big for that location. Hempfest 2013
I also tried converting from PDF to EPUB. Sometimes the PDF isn't in a good condition and I get a very poor EPUB. If that happens, I convert PDF -> RTF, clean up and spell check in MS Word, then RTF -> EPUB.
This has let me fix over-large graphics, incorrect page breaks, constant spelling problems from the OCR, and font problems.
~~
Why worry about printing carbon-copy type forms when you can just print the same page twice? I guess it depends if the multipart forms are cheaper than the plain paper and ink for the additional pages, but I wouldn't think so.
You still don't understand RP propagation. Having an antenna receive a signal does not diminish the strength of the signal behind it any more than a metal light pole diminishes it. Both will cause a slight disturbance in the transmitted signal, but the rest of the signal will still continue past it. You can't calculate how many devices are receiving an RF signal by measuring field strength at a fixed distance.
Think of throwing a pebble into a pond and watching the waves travel outward. If you put a stick in the water, it will disrupt the wave slightly, but the rest of the wave continues radiating outward. The small amount of energy that the stick receives is so miniscule compared to the total circular wave, it can be thought of as zero. (Well, if the stick is 10 feet away from the source it intersects a circle more than 60 feet in circumference. A one-inch stick would disrupt 1/750th of the circle. 20 feet away? 1/1500th of the total circumference.) Plus, RF propagates in three dimensions, not just two.
And your proof? You suggest putting enough barriers around the transmitting antenna to capture all the radiated energy to gain back more than you started with. First, you would never effectively capture it all, unless you built a Fariday Cage around the transmitter. Plus you ignore the power loss in converting the RF power back to electricity. You can't prove your point by suggesting if you are wrong we would have perpetual energy.
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Yeah, we know how well that worked...
http://threatpost.com/department-energy-compromised-sophisticated-attack-020413/77485
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/04/net-us-usa-cybersecurity-doe-idUSBRE9130ZL20130204
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57567581-83/hackers-hit-u.s-department-of-energy/
Every release or two, Microsoft creates a new file format .. it then takes the competitors 5 years to catch up at which time, MS releases a new file format.
Microsoft opened the barn doors when they pushed to have the office format declared an Open Standard. They were very nervous that other file formats would be declared the new preferred open format by governments and organizations trying to get away from closed, undocumented, and proprietary formats. This has allowed other office suites to accurately read and write documents in Microsoft's formats. If Microsoft now tries to change their format again, without documenting all the changes, they risk having the Office 2010 format declared the only supported file format users are allowed to use by many companies. Microsoft's last couple of releases have done nothing but change the UI or licensing terms without adding anything substantive.
The horse has left the barn and Microsoft will have a devil of a time getting it back in.
Stop spending trillions on "defense" and you can take care of the sick and elderly, educate the young, feed the hungry, pave the roads and repair the bridges., and still have enough left over to explore space.
Without that money spent on defense, you wouldn't have any sick, elderly, young, hungry, roads, or bridges to worry about.