Unfortunately, the governments of Earth are running out of quarters, so the new high score on this game will have to remain unclaimed for another year.
Only the Droid has been able to get a GPS fix indoors at my house, and it gets a bit of help in doing so from its other location-finding features and a data connection.
With a clock you don't need to see multiple satellites simultaneously. A navigating device needs several satellites' time-hacks and then enough time with clean signals to do interferometry on the carrier frequencies to fix a location. You only need one signal from one satellite with enough SNR to let the bits through.
Crystals aren't 0.1-second/day accurate innately. The count/second varies from crystal to crystal based on their exact dimensions, and they're all a little different. However, the thing they're plugged into isn't stupid. After a watch is built, it can be tested, and the circuitry told to drop counts at a rate equal to the error revealed in testing. At that point the question isn't accuracy but stability and precision, and crystals are 0.1-second/day stable and precise.
There are also crystals now that are built with multiple lobes to give off harmonics of their characteristic frequency, so there are a few watches running on something like a 200-kHz timebase.
See, that's the thing. There are people who think nothing of spending $100 million to crock an election so they can make $1 Billion by pushing $1 Trillion and a few thousand lives down a shithole.
And they have millions and millions of $10K millionaires voting for them.
A little fraud at the ballot terminal is nothing compared with the psychological sea-change needed to fix that.
Sure they do. See/usr/man/man2... or wherever your distro has moved the freaking man pages to, because this RH5 I'm on hid the fucking things in/usr/share/man/en...
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If it reduces the percentage of animals that have to be killed just because they ended up in the "Animal Shelter", it's a good thing.
accomplish absolutely nothing
Unless the idea spreads to the surrounding jurisdictions. Then to the state. Etc., etc.
Pet sales will just become black market and underhanded.
Many of them already are. Puppy mills, e.g.
This will at least criminalize the practice.
Not much in my phone is worth having. The only reason to lock it is to make butt-dialing harder.
If you're keeping sensitive info in your iPhone, and not protecting it with anything more than the phone's unlock code, you're a dope.
Here's a clue: don't let anyone mess with your phone when you're not there to stop them.
Does Nike make shoes for it?
Unfortunately, the governments of Earth are running out of quarters, so the new high score on this game will have to remain unclaimed for another year.
Don't forget old porn magazines to trade for beaver pelts.
I can tell if a woman is beautiful just by looking at her.
I watched the vid a few times. If it had been on a course for the center of the Earth, it looks like it would have killer-asteroided all over Burma.
But NIST does test for accuracy, and the other labs that test for safety would rely on that accuracy.
Then there's no such thing as fraud. I'll alert the DoJ.
Price is what the seller convinces the buyer to pay.
Value is what the buyer should have paid.
Like I said. Fucked blue.
That was the moment liberals stopped liking her.
And the morality police are... anyone? anyone? Bueller?
Conserrrrvatives. That's right. The people who insist they must have this freedom are the same ones who insist you must not.
Conservatism. Rolling back reason and equality to the 18th Century for over 200 years.
Chunky ones, yes:
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=349&ra=true
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=142&pID=31859
Comes with more features than any watch should have, and makes you look like a fitness geek.
Only the Droid has been able to get a GPS fix indoors at my house, and it gets a bit of help in doing so from its other location-finding features and a data connection.
With a clock you don't need to see multiple satellites simultaneously. A navigating device needs several satellites' time-hacks and then enough time with clean signals to do interferometry on the carrier frequencies to fix a location. You only need one signal from one satellite with enough SNR to let the bits through.
I think some manufacturers have stopped putting quartz crystals on board and just use a silicon oscillator assuming that the user will use NTP.
Which is actually a pretty good idea, since with a sea of servers (or the interwebs) you're going to have a random assortment of clock drifts.
Crystals aren't 0.1-second/day accurate innately. The count/second varies from crystal to crystal based on their exact dimensions, and they're all a little different. However, the thing they're plugged into isn't stupid. After a watch is built, it can be tested, and the circuitry told to drop counts at a rate equal to the error revealed in testing. At that point the question isn't accuracy but stability and precision, and crystals are 0.1-second/day stable and precise.
There are also crystals now that are built with multiple lobes to give off harmonics of their characteristic frequency, so there are a few watches running on something like a 200-kHz timebase.
I prefer the type where you enter your vote on a touchscreen and get a printout that is duplicated and dropped in a lockbox by the machine itself.
Cleaner and auditable right down to you presenting your votes to be compared with the ones in the lockbox and the ones recorded in the central DB.
Unfortunately, I think I just invented it, so I doubt I'll find it anywhere.
See, that's the thing. There are people who think nothing of spending $100 million to crock an election so they can make $1 Billion by pushing $1 Trillion and a few thousand lives down a shithole.
And they have millions and millions of $10K millionaires voting for them.
A little fraud at the ballot terminal is nothing compared with the psychological sea-change needed to fix that.
It ought to be controlled by a CPU #define, if it makes that much difference.
Hell, he coulda gone to 2.7 if he was tired of feeling old.
RSS is a news aggregator. /. is a news aggravator.
A major version should show up every six months with whatever we feel like dropping into it at that point.
Signed,
Mark Shuttleworth
Sure they do. See /usr/man/man2 ... or wherever your distro has moved the freaking man pages to, because this RH5 I'm on hid the fucking things in /usr/share/man/en...