Physics derives to a great extent from astronomy, and has been a tremendous benefit to everyone. Or would you like to go back to that vaccuum-tube smartphone?
Hawaii and Alaska are great tax burdens on the Continental United States and if they'd really like to be free, I am sure you can find lots of people in the Continental United States who would be willing to support that. Please get ready to do without the subsidies.
Uh-huh. Go bankrupt and the state inherits the e-waste. The difference between this and a factory floor is that the factory equipment is assumed to have resale value sufficient for it not to become a burden.
The only thing I can think of is to keep funds in escrow related to the total square feet of storage. This would not be conductive to the sort of shoestring operation that most surplus shops are.
your first visit will be quite exciting when they whip out ANSI/ISA S82.02.01.
That's about about line voltage equipment such as voltmeters and clamp-on ammeters. The safety requirements for them are well-known and well-justified, but they are mainly applicable to the facilities staff.
I don't ever see OSHA staff where I work, which is around electronic engineers and computer programmers. My main concern with electronic engineers is keeping them from wearing jewelry around low-voltage, high-current power supplies. We get people who are so attached to that stuff they are unable to physically remove their wedding rings. And yet I can't exclude anyone with that blatant safety problem from employment. So, OSHA isn't being any help.
The largest effect of ITAR-like regulations is that government radio and computers don't go surplus, instead they are destroyed. This is in part because of their capabilities and mostly because of embedded encryption.
There actually is a lot of surplus released from U.S. cellular companies and the like. These days it ends up on DoveBid and is mostly bought by other businesses. I bought a pallet of Rhode and Schwarz spectrum analyzers that way. I think I spent $8000 for the whole thing, and any two working ones will sell for more.
I have brought them to the various flea markets, the TRW and Cupertino ones, etc. Nobody can afford them there. So when they sell, they sell on eBay.
I've worked at a lot of technical companies and have never met anyone from OSHA or even heard that such a person was on the premises. Nor are there any OSHA standards for test equipment and engineering prototypes.
I know there are lots of people who drink moon condensed with lead radiators and spend their leisure time theorizing government conspiracies and denying climate change. They don't belong on Slashdot, though., Go away, troll.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. â" 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' â" Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. -- Emerson
1 mm per year is one foot in 300 years. It's completely plausible that a one foot change could swamp major parts of the United States, not to mention Pacific islands. And they'd feel the effects long before then.
I have a 15-year-old and am well aware of young people's usage patterns. While texting, etc., you are holding the phone and the antenna is directly against your hand and relatively close to your head. In contrast, a laptop generally has the antenna at the top of the display and is held at a greater distance.
Although they don't happen as often as they did in my generation, my 15-year-old does make long voice calls.
A cell phone is actually much more powerful than WiFi as far as the human exposure is concerned, because most users hold it to their heads. Because of the inverse-square law, it's going to be more powerful than the WiFi in your laptop, the WiFi base station, or indeed anything that's not held to your head.
The very best thing you could have done with that particular posting of Eric's would have been to ignore it, and run the story about that nice woman without mentioning it. She can stand on her own and nobody but Eric should be held to account for what he said.
SpaceShip One touched space and all elements were recovered and flew to space again.
BO's demonstration is more publicity than practical rocketry. It doesn't look like the aerodynamic elements of BO's current rocket are suitable for recovery after orbital injection, just after a straight up-down space tourism flight with no potential for orbit, just like SpaceShip One (and Two). They can't put an object in space and have it stay in orbit. They can just take dudes up for a short and expensive view and a little time in zero gee.
It's going to be real history when SpaceX recovers the first stage after an orbital injection, in that it will completely change the economics of getting to space and staying there.
You'd need a popular product to pull off obtaining second-clientage from governments, and you'd need not to reveal that your device had legal intercept.
This is just a poorly-directed company continuing to shoot itself in the foot. It's not made its product desirable for government, or for anyone else.
There's a truism in marketing that you can only differentiate your product on the parts that the customer sees and uses. Blackberry just can't learn this lesson. They tried differentiating on the OS kernel, which the customer never sees. And now on an insecurity feature that the customer won't be allowed to use.
It's been a protracted death spiral, but it's a continuing one.
That's interesting because I had never paid attention to it before.
I think it's because the meme is so deeply ingrained within the conventional devices of literature in our society that we take it for context. It's there, it has an effect, you don't notice.
The Hobbit books are to a great extent about race war. The races are alien and fictional, but they are races, and the identification of good or bad is on racial boundaries. This isn't all that unusual in the fantasy genre, or even some sci-fi.
Lots of people love those books. And there's lots of good in them. To me, the race stuff stuck out.
What happens on eBay is just a market. It's fundamental that a properly working market works to determine the optimum price for whatever is being sold. A properly working market would have multiple sellers and multiple buyers, all with somewhat differing circumstances. Improperly working markets are dominated by a single vendor, etc. No market works perfectly, there are always factors that cause markets to be less efficient than they should be.
Demand pricing is something one vendor does deliberately and with calculation. In contrast, the market pricing is arrived at as the aggregate of the behavior of many people. The market's actually broken if the calculation of one person can influence it disproportionately.
No definition of "surge pricing" could include eBay because it's an auction with multiple independent bidders. Uber, on the other hand, is one bidder with multiple operators who work through its pricing structure. Experienced Uber operators actually avoid areas with high dynamic pricing because there's too much traffic around them. It's more profitable to do three less expensive rides than one expensive one.
Uber dynamic pricing fails the riders, and fails the operators. Uber still makes its money, they don't particularly care that they aren't serving either bloc efficiently.
The problem is that the asymmetry doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
I have no problem with the mission of investigating fringe theories. But I don't think they deserve a bit of publicity until they raise an orbit in space. I know a guy at CERN who had a bad connector, and it told them something was happening faster than light.
For me to confuse an EM Drive with a photon drive, I would have to believe in the EM Drive. I happen to be a member of a private club called AMSAT that has its latest cubesat in orbit right now, and that is OSCAR 85 in a series running since 1963. Obviously, there isn't really anything standing in the way of testing this on a cubesat. I'm sure that if you can raise something's orbit that there will be a lot more attention. Until then, color me dubious.
If this works, why aren't the many satellites which run radio transmitters on similar frequencies pushed out of orbit to a measurable degree? It's the same mechanism as the "emdrive", but with the feed open rather than closed at the end.
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Physics derives to a great extent from astronomy, and has been a tremendous benefit to everyone. Or would you like to go back to that vaccuum-tube smartphone?
Hawaii and Alaska are great tax burdens on the Continental United States and if they'd really like to be free, I am sure you can find lots of people in the Continental United States who would be willing to support that. Please get ready to do without the subsidies.
Uh-huh. Go bankrupt and the state inherits the e-waste. The difference between this and a factory floor is that the factory equipment is assumed to have resale value sufficient for it not to become a burden.
The only thing I can think of is to keep funds in escrow related to the total square feet of storage. This would not be conductive to the sort of shoestring operation that most surplus shops are.
That's about about line voltage equipment such as voltmeters and clamp-on ammeters. The safety requirements for them are well-known and well-justified, but they are mainly applicable to the facilities staff.
I don't ever see OSHA staff where I work, which is around electronic engineers and computer programmers. My main concern with electronic engineers is keeping them from wearing jewelry around low-voltage, high-current power supplies. We get people who are so attached to that stuff they are unable to physically remove their wedding rings. And yet I can't exclude anyone with that blatant safety problem from employment. So, OSHA isn't being any help.
The largest effect of ITAR-like regulations is that government radio and computers don't go surplus, instead they are destroyed. This is in part because of their capabilities and mostly because of embedded encryption. There actually is a lot of surplus released from U.S. cellular companies and the like. These days it ends up on DoveBid and is mostly bought by other businesses. I bought a pallet of Rhode and Schwarz spectrum analyzers that way. I think I spent $8000 for the whole thing, and any two working ones will sell for more. I have brought them to the various flea markets, the TRW and Cupertino ones, etc. Nobody can afford them there. So when they sell, they sell on eBay.
I've worked at a lot of technical companies and have never met anyone from OSHA or even heard that such a person was on the premises. Nor are there any OSHA standards for test equipment and engineering prototypes. I know there are lots of people who drink moon condensed with lead radiators and spend their leisure time theorizing government conspiracies and denying climate change. They don't belong on Slashdot, though., Go away, troll.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. â" 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' â" Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. -- Emerson
1 mm per year is one foot in 300 years. It's completely plausible that a one foot change could swamp major parts of the United States, not to mention Pacific islands. And they'd feel the effects long before then.
I have a 15-year-old and am well aware of young people's usage patterns. While texting, etc., you are holding the phone and the antenna is directly against your hand and relatively close to your head. In contrast, a laptop generally has the antenna at the top of the display and is held at a greater distance.
Although they don't happen as often as they did in my generation, my 15-year-old does make long voice calls.
A cell phone is actually much more powerful than WiFi as far as the human exposure is concerned, because most users hold it to their heads. Because of the inverse-square law, it's going to be more powerful than the WiFi in your laptop, the WiFi base station, or indeed anything that's not held to your head.
The very best thing you could have done with that particular posting of Eric's would have been to ignore it, and run the story about that nice woman without mentioning it. She can stand on her own and nobody but Eric should be held to account for what he said.
SpaceShip One touched space and all elements were recovered and flew to space again.
BO's demonstration is more publicity than practical rocketry. It doesn't look like the aerodynamic elements of BO's current rocket are suitable for recovery after orbital injection, just after a straight up-down space tourism flight with no potential for orbit, just like SpaceShip One (and Two). They can't put an object in space and have it stay in orbit. They can just take dudes up for a short and expensive view and a little time in zero gee.
It's going to be real history when SpaceX recovers the first stage after an orbital injection, in that it will completely change the economics of getting to space and staying there.
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This is assuming that Mozilla will survive long enough to do any of this.
You'd need a popular product to pull off obtaining second-clientage from governments, and you'd need not to reveal that your device had legal intercept.
This is just a poorly-directed company continuing to shoot itself in the foot. It's not made its product desirable for government, or for anyone else.
There's a truism in marketing that you can only differentiate your product on the parts that the customer sees and uses. Blackberry just can't learn this lesson. They tried differentiating on the OS kernel, which the customer never sees. And now on an insecurity feature that the customer won't be allowed to use. It's been a protracted death spiral, but it's a continuing one.
OK, call me a Philistine (deliberate racial epithet to make a point) but I consider The Hobbit and LoTR to be a piece.
I think it's because the meme is so deeply ingrained within the conventional devices of literature in our society that we take it for context. It's there, it has an effect, you don't notice.
The Hobbit books are to a great extent about race war. The races are alien and fictional, but they are races, and the identification of good or bad is on racial boundaries. This isn't all that unusual in the fantasy genre, or even some sci-fi.
Lots of people love those books. And there's lots of good in them. To me, the race stuff stuck out.
What happens on eBay is just a market. It's fundamental that a properly working market works to determine the optimum price for whatever is being sold. A properly working market would have multiple sellers and multiple buyers, all with somewhat differing circumstances. Improperly working markets are dominated by a single vendor, etc. No market works perfectly, there are always factors that cause markets to be less efficient than they should be.
Demand pricing is something one vendor does deliberately and with calculation. In contrast, the market pricing is arrived at as the aggregate of the behavior of many people. The market's actually broken if the calculation of one person can influence it disproportionately.
First, there's no shortage of interurban data links for these companies to use if they're willing to. A shortage of infrastructure is a myth.
Second, the customers will indeed abscond, but not to conventional telephone companies.
Anyone who is considering how to jack up voice call pricing is moving around deck chairs on the Titanic.
No definition of "surge pricing" could include eBay because it's an auction with multiple independent bidders. Uber, on the other hand, is one bidder with multiple operators who work through its pricing structure. Experienced Uber operators actually avoid areas with high dynamic pricing because there's too much traffic around them. It's more profitable to do three less expensive rides than one expensive one.
Uber dynamic pricing fails the riders, and fails the operators. Uber still makes its money, they don't particularly care that they aren't serving either bloc efficiently.
I have no problem with the mission of investigating fringe theories. But I don't think they deserve a bit of publicity until they raise an orbit in space. I know a guy at CERN who had a bad connector, and it told them something was happening faster than light.
For me to confuse an EM Drive with a photon drive, I would have to believe in the EM Drive. I happen to be a member of a private club called AMSAT that has its latest cubesat in orbit right now, and that is OSCAR 85 in a series running since 1963. Obviously, there isn't really anything standing in the way of testing this on a cubesat. I'm sure that if you can raise something's orbit that there will be a lot more attention. Until then, color me dubious.
If this works, why aren't the many satellites which run radio transmitters on similar frequencies pushed out of orbit to a measurable degree? It's the same mechanism as the "emdrive", but with the feed open rather than closed at the end.