And the salespeople at Microcenter offer to help if its obvious I look lost and aren't overbearing like the vultures down the street at Best Buy or CompUSA. I don't get the idea they are trying to sell me a car when I step my foot in the door.
Its an organization for money, supported by organizations with money. They are in the business of taking rights and making money from it. We are not welcome.
And when the batteries are spent, they are traded in for new ones. The old ones are sent to the smelter, melted down and made into new batteries. Its cheaper to recycle than to prepare a bunch of ore.
I thought the Prius batteries were warrantied for 10 years, not 8.
Not only will a hardware job pay higher, it gives a person more freedom to play with the software side. Most hardware needs software, so anything extra beyond the job classification is the added touch.
And if the hardware job fails, there's always another industrial job that uses electricity. So many electrical career opportunities at home that requires help. This is the stuff that can't be exported over TCP/IP.
When I posted a carefully written response to the criticism, I got criticism...
This happens in every profession at every employer from anyone who has to do work. Its human nature to take the gravy from the plate and give others the left over bones. Of course, this doesn't help when there are no other people to enjoy the left over scraps so they get discarded.
Next time you have a problem, bring lots of gravy. The dogs might attack the problem next time without going after YOU!
More proof that the difference between us and other animals in the kingdom is that we have opposable thumbs. The advantage is we get to meet a lot of monkeys. And an infinite number of them are proficient at typing on a typewriter typing the Complete Works of William Shakespeare while ignoring your very simple question.
Well, we have 8 cents per kilowatt hour residential rate, 2 cents commercial rate, and a flat rate for "surplus" power.
Hook your computer up to a wattmeter and you'd be surprised. 40 watts for the box and about 40 for the monitor. 500 watts sounds like an old tube type television (remember those?)
Consider all those 40 watt lights in the ceiling. Add them up and weep! My company has about 1,000 400 watt sodium lights. That 4,000,000 watts trumps anyone's personal computer. Don't get me started on the 2,000 horsepower worth of refrigeration...
Back in the old days, popular applications were stand alone, written in assembly, and made to fit within a single code segment. Since resources were small, much care was taken to get the most out of so little. Software back then were simple like motorcycles; they had the basics bolted to a simple frame and off it went. Today we have software written with stock libraries, made to work with all kinds of resources and standards, and required to work with large filesystems and memory maps. Applications back then fly today, but seem like a small insect when it comes to functionality.
Often when I google for something, often its difficult to get any useful search results besides, "why don't you google for it." While I can appreciate finding information without involvement of a forum directly, searching for information sometimes turns into a recursive black hole.
What I have seen here is a better compilation of information than I have seen yet. So I thank the person for asking.
Whatever happened to getting these things on friggin shark foreheads?
Not a good idea. The shark can rise above the surface to bite someone and then the laser beam may be pointed at an aircraft. We can't have that possibility.
The banking industry has plenty of lawyers and political clout. Maybe some change will come out of this suit.
No. This will only be used by both sides to eliminate the smaller players. Patents do not help the small inventor, but only the large companies with resources to maintain legal fights.
But until they can get the collection process started I question it's value.
I'm sure there is no shortage for offers of "insurance" that they will get the money. Many speculators with money would like to gamble and say, "we'll give you 1,000,000 in cash now if you sign over all the rights to the settlement to us." And like a bondsman, they will go after the spammer with millions of dollars worth of paid goons to collect. With a price like that on the spammer's head, there's no escape in this small world.
Shouldn't be too hard. The speedometer gets its reading from pulses from a simple encoder. Run this through a simple $0.99 PIC processor and if the pulses exceed one of the [35, 45, 55, 65]mph buttons pressed on the dash, cap the pulses.
Sounds like a good $10 privacy project to me. I see the popularity of magazines specializing in these projects in the future, just like Popular Electronics and Radio Electronics were in the 70's.
Well yes, the key is never transmitted. But you *can* relay the signal from the point of transaction to the host (victim.) He could be sitting at home with his RFID tag, but you have made a few hops with the signal to his house, querried the RFID tag and relayed it back to the sale machine. Sold!
Only way around this is a sophisticated frequency hopping algorithm, but I doubt the minimalist electronics of a RFID tag is going to impliment a full scale DSP.
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And the salespeople at Microcenter offer to help if its obvious I look lost and aren't overbearing like the vultures down the street at Best Buy or CompUSA. I don't get the idea they are trying to sell me a car when I step my foot in the door.
Its an organization for money, supported by organizations with money. They are in the business of taking rights and making money from it. We are not welcome.
And when the batteries are spent, they are traded in for new ones. The old ones are sent to the smelter, melted down and made into new batteries. Its cheaper to recycle than to prepare a bunch of ore.
I thought the Prius batteries were warrantied for 10 years, not 8.
But he paid good money to our lawmakers for a monopoly so he could rape and pillage society. They don't call him a pirate for nothing.
Not only will a hardware job pay higher, it gives a person more freedom to play with the software side. Most hardware needs software, so anything extra beyond the job classification is the added touch.
And if the hardware job fails, there's always another industrial job that uses electricity. So many electrical career opportunities at home that requires help. This is the stuff that can't be exported over TCP/IP.
With the new flash readers as stock on most new computers, these may be unpopular by next year.
Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)
When I posted a carefully written response to the criticism, I got criticism...
This happens in every profession at every employer from anyone who has to do work. Its human nature to take the gravy from the plate and give others the left over bones. Of course, this doesn't help when there are no other people to enjoy the left over scraps so they get discarded.
Next time you have a problem, bring lots of gravy. The dogs might attack the problem next time without going after YOU!
More proof that the difference between us and other animals in the kingdom is that we have opposable thumbs. The advantage is we get to meet a lot of monkeys. And an infinite number of them are proficient at typing on a typewriter typing the Complete Works of William Shakespeare while ignoring your very simple question.
Well, we have 8 cents per kilowatt hour residential rate, 2 cents commercial rate, and a flat rate for "surplus" power.
Hook your computer up to a wattmeter and you'd be surprised. 40 watts for the box and about 40 for the monitor. 500 watts sounds like an old tube type television (remember those?)
Consider all those 40 watt lights in the ceiling. Add them up and weep! My company has about 1,000 400 watt sodium lights. That 4,000,000 watts trumps anyone's personal computer. Don't get me started on the 2,000 horsepower worth of refrigeration...
Back in the old days, popular applications were stand alone, written in assembly, and made to fit within a single code segment. Since resources were small, much care was taken to get the most out of so little. Software back then were simple like motorcycles; they had the basics bolted to a simple frame and off it went. Today we have software written with stock libraries, made to work with all kinds of resources and standards, and required to work with large filesystems and memory maps. Applications back then fly today, but seem like a small insect when it comes to functionality.
And they patented it to prevent interoperability.
Its amazing how a one line script would violate a patent and get a small man to lose his house in court.
Often when I google for something, often its difficult to get any useful search results besides, "why don't you google for it." While I can appreciate finding information without involvement of a forum directly, searching for information sometimes turns into a recursive black hole.
What I have seen here is a better compilation of information than I have seen yet. So I thank the person for asking.
Whatever happened to getting these things on friggin shark foreheads?
Not a good idea. The shark can rise above the surface to bite someone and then the laser beam may be pointed at an aircraft. We can't have that possibility.
Apparently, this kind of crash is recoverable, but I wouldn't feel good about it happening.
The banking industry has plenty of lawyers and political clout. Maybe some change will come out of this suit.
No. This will only be used by both sides to eliminate the smaller players. Patents do not help the small inventor, but only the large companies with resources to maintain legal fights.
But until they can get the collection process started I question it's value.
I'm sure there is no shortage for offers of "insurance" that they will get the money. Many speculators with money would like to gamble and say, "we'll give you 1,000,000 in cash now if you sign over all the rights to the settlement to us." And like a bondsman, they will go after the spammer with millions of dollars worth of paid goons to collect. With a price like that on the spammer's head, there's no escape in this small world.
The internet existed before advertising. I'm sure business models can adapt to consumers who wish to be treated with respect.
Think that was bad? Someone broke into my house. Waiting time on 911 was 15 minutes. Police showed up 2 hours later.
This was four years ago. Could it possibly get any worse?
Bush did order the draft.
The trouble began when I had to buy new cartridges, I bought 3 in a row, and they were all empty, what the hell is up with that.
You are an engineer for [evil printer company] and are told to increase profits 50%. So you increase i=20 in the cartrige purge program.
It works, but with the side effect of everyone with glasses and contact lenses will be asked to leave the theater.
maybe we will let you become a state!
No, we call them outside territories or terrorist regimes.
Shouldn't be too hard. The speedometer gets its reading from pulses from a simple encoder. Run this through a simple $0.99 PIC processor and if the pulses exceed one of the [35, 45, 55, 65]mph buttons pressed on the dash, cap the pulses.
Sounds like a good $10 privacy project to me. I see the popularity of magazines specializing in these projects in the future, just like Popular Electronics and Radio Electronics were in the 70's.
"Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled."
WTF?
You don't get it, do you?
Well yes, the key is never transmitted. But you *can* relay the signal from the point of transaction to the host (victim.) He could be sitting at home with his RFID tag, but you have made a few hops with the signal to his house, querried the RFID tag and relayed it back to the sale machine. Sold!
Only way around this is a sophisticated frequency hopping algorithm, but I doubt the minimalist electronics of a RFID tag is going to impliment a full scale DSP.