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It could work on my street, mostly. I live on a street with a court and at the end the truck typically has to reverse/forward/reverse/forward to get in a position where the hydraulic lift can pick up my container and get it dumped. There are situations where the containers are not properly positioned (backward, sideways, obstructions, etc) and make it impossible for the truck to get to the container and they guy will actually get out and re-position the container so as to get at it. But since the city is the one picking it up, they could just forego getting those. The owners will quickly learn their lesson. Or sue city hall.
As with the ink counter, all inkjet machines do this. The very high-end floor mount models have removable drip containers you can empty. It isn't worth it to engineer that into the the low-end machines; the cost of a new machine (ink included) is not much more than the cost of a new set of carts. Besides, by the time you get that error, the rest of the machine is wore-the-hell out.
If that shutdown feature makes you angry, imagine how you'd feel if ink started leaking out of the machine onto your nice desk.
No matter the brand, if it is an inkjet, it is going to behave pretty much the same way. It is an engineering constraint more than anything else. They could design the machines to use every drop in every tank every time, but the cost of that would be such that you wouldn't buy the machine, you'd buy a far cheaper competitor machine. Even with those [older] canon carts, when empty, there is still about 20% left in the spongy part near the output hole.
For most brands you can override the OOI error by pressing and holding the stop button for ~10 seconds. Better not to do that.
When you run a bubblejet out of ink, you stand the risk of damaging the print head. The print head is comprised of thousands of nozzles. Each nozzle has a tiny heating element. To deliver ink, the heating element gets hot, vaporizes a tiny amount of ink behind it which in turn pushes liquid ink out the nozzle. With no ink behind the heating element, best case is the heating element will eventually overheat and may burn out that nozzle; That's one streak through your prints. A single streak ruins every print.
That's fine for a two-cart system where you are replacing the print head when you replace the cart. But for the higher-end machines, the print head represents most of the cost of the printer. Ruin it and you've ruined the machine.
Older technology used piezoelectric crystals to push the ink. They didn't have the burn out problem but they were limited as to resolution.
But yea, there's no doubt they charge way, way to much for their ink carts. Don't like it? Buy a laser jet.
Apple needs to bring more to the party. Like a la carte cable channels. That would be "One More Thing..." that would make me drop the cash.
The a la carte cable channels are a function of what the individual channels allow. Lots of channels are making lots of deals with lots of streaming companies to allow just that. Others are sticking strictly with the cable providers [for now]. Apple made an exclusive deal with HBO recently so you can get that already (app is HBO Now as opposed to HBO Go). CBS is 'out there' too but they're crazy expensive. ESPN made a deal with Sling. I suspect that in five years you'll be able to get most anything (but there will still be some bundling. So... you'll have what you want but it is unlikely that any will be limited strictly to Apple, which is a good thing because AppleTV sucks.
The new Roku app is in Beta now. You can download it if you're a paying member. It looks very nice but NQRFPT yet. They're still adding features and working out inconsistencies in navigation. I've yet to discover an operational bug.
Using the wayback machine... http://web.archive.org/web/201... ... I was able to visit that particular page about a month after it was written. I find at the bottom this:
Disclosure: This post was written in collaboration with the American Egg Board, who is encouraging consumers to get a fresh start on health by eating real, all natural foods like eggs. I have a similar vision, so this partnership was a good match for me and my readers.
So Recipe Girl did indeed disclose. Was it there the day she wrote it? Probably.
Hopefully his answer will be a little more specific than simply 'competitive'. I'm not looking for an exact number but, given the technology at hand, a somewhat narrow range would be nice.
A few low-power analog stations are actually still operating in the UHF band. Their cutoff date is Sep of this year.
A full list of the current [re]allocation for UHF can be found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
According to that, only one auction has taken place.
...would mean a very thin blanket.
Rural applications exist, especially in under-served areas. While I can't believe it would accommodate much more bandwidth than DSL when split into a useful number of channels, some bandwidth is better than none.
At 400-700Mhz what kind of bandwidth can they accommodate?
Since the article tells us neither the number of channels they'll open or the width of those channels, I'm not sure that's knowable yet. I think the formula is 2.5bits/s/hz/cell under perfect conditions.
What you wrote is closest to the actual reality. As such, lifting the U.S. embargo isn't going to make them a free country. They will remain poor and... incommunicado... so long as they dictatorship exists. If Castro et al had wanted cell phones and internet, they could have had it right along with the rest of the world, but that would likely result in the end of Castro et al.
Our embargo has not, in any way, prevented them from doing that. It isn't like the U.S. is the sole source of that technology.
I cut cable tv about 6 months ago. I had the tv/internet/phone package with no 'premium' channels. My monthly bill was $190.
My bill is now ~$100 plus the ~$10/mo I pay to Netflix and the ~$5/mo I 'gift' to Plex. Total outlay is ~$115.
That's a savings of $75/mo or $900/yr.
I would call that going down 'much'.
I putting my first year's savings into an upgraded network for my home (dedicated media server and tons of drive space).
I figure about ~$100/yr thereafter to keep it current.
Most importantly...
1) I never have to watch commercials anymore, and
2) I'm inundated with as much excellent tv as I care to watch.
In most places I've worked have the thermostat locked behind a plexiglass enclosure.
Closer inspection, in every case, reveals that the lock is for show only; it having been jimmied long ago. Which is good since nobody has the key anyway.
And that's okay except for those who decide that since it is way to hot/cold for them, they'll turn it all the way in the other direction rather than to a temperature they prefer.
Ideally there would be a wireless transmitter in the PC, and a downstairs wireless receiver box into which I could plug the keyboard, mouse, and of course, the TV via an HDMI cable
I can't think of any OOB ready-made solutions to this. At least none that would be cheaper than buying a dedicated downstairs computer. Even then it would be a kludge: you could teamview from the downstairs computer into the upstairs computer; that would do it but it would be clunky.
First: What is not noted in the OP is the statement at the end of the article that [this] vulnerability has been fixed.
This article interested me in that I recently installed one of their fancy wifi-enabled thermostats, the VisionPRO 8000. I was a little disappointed that I had to access it through their site rather than locally but it is nice to be able to control it from my office computer. I can't imagine I'll ever have the need to access it when away from home. I don't see much risk inasmuch as the worst that can happen is a hacker might make me a bit too chilly. Of course, I don't know that for sure. Perhaps there is some deeper hack that can gain access to my network as a whole through that interface. Then again, there are probably so many holes in my system now that a hacker would just take a more obvious route through one of the garage-door-sized holes.
As of this post, there are Three people in space. Sometimes it's nine.
It doesn't take a rocket science to realize that there is not enough current demand for anything to make it cost effective.
Even if we increase demand 100 fold, it still isn't going to be worthwhile.
And I don't think they're going to do that. Frankly, having even three folks up there is a bit of a waste.
That's a fake site, probably kat.to. It used to be correct but was hijacked about 6 or so months ago.
kat.cr is the current one but it may not be for long; things change quickly in that world.
Which may or may not be relevant. Since we do not know that the two events were not caused by common point of failure (i.e. the fiber backbone and microwave system were powered by the same system, etc) then we can't know the likelihood of it happening again, and again, and again. That's what the risk analysis is for. Perhaps a third option really is the cheapest way forward.
From a political point of view, this can be leveraged into something a little more significant. Consider http://www2.ntia.doc.gov/grant...
They were granted $8M to improve their backbone. Perhaps a decent politician can now leverage this outage into $16M.
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Since this product gets free placement here at /., I figure it is okay to put in a word for the good folks at Distributed Proofreaders.
Books are scanned and [sometimes roughly] OCR'd.
Each and every word, period, hyphen, and ellipsis on each and every page is scrutinized by at least three proofreaders.
Each bold, italic, underline and indent is evaluated by at least two formatters.
The work is finalized in HTML, proofread as a whole, and published to Project Gutenberg in various formats, txt, pdf, html and epub.
The resulting publication typically has far fewer publishing errors than the original book. This is especially true of books from the 17th century where drinking was part of a typesetter's expectation.
Be a part of it.
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So ... charity?
It could work on my street, mostly. I live on a street with a court and at the end the truck typically has to reverse/forward/reverse/forward to get in a position where the hydraulic lift can pick up my container and get it dumped. There are situations where the containers are not properly positioned (backward, sideways, obstructions, etc) and make it impossible for the truck to get to the container and they guy will actually get out and re-position the container so as to get at it. But since the city is the one picking it up, they could just forego getting those. The owners will quickly learn their lesson. Or sue city hall.
As with the ink counter, all inkjet machines do this. The very high-end floor mount models have removable drip containers you can empty. It isn't worth it to engineer that into the the low-end machines; the cost of a new machine (ink included) is not much more than the cost of a new set of carts. Besides, by the time you get that error, the rest of the machine is wore-the-hell out.
If that shutdown feature makes you angry, imagine how you'd feel if ink started leaking out of the machine onto your nice desk.
I'm skeptical of your 10% figure, BTW.
No matter the brand, if it is an inkjet, it is going to behave pretty much the same way. It is an engineering constraint more than anything else. They could design the machines to use every drop in every tank every time, but the cost of that would be such that you wouldn't buy the machine, you'd buy a far cheaper competitor machine. Even with those [older] canon carts, when empty, there is still about 20% left in the spongy part near the output hole.
For most brands you can override the OOI error by pressing and holding the stop button for ~10 seconds. Better not to do that.
When you run a bubblejet out of ink, you stand the risk of damaging the print head. The print head is comprised of thousands of nozzles. Each nozzle has a tiny heating element. To deliver ink, the heating element gets hot, vaporizes a tiny amount of ink behind it which in turn pushes liquid ink out the nozzle. With no ink behind the heating element, best case is the heating element will eventually overheat and may burn out that nozzle; That's one streak through your prints. A single streak ruins every print.
That's fine for a two-cart system where you are replacing the print head when you replace the cart. But for the higher-end machines, the print head represents most of the cost of the printer. Ruin it and you've ruined the machine.
Older technology used piezoelectric crystals to push the ink. They didn't have the burn out problem but they were limited as to resolution.
But yea, there's no doubt they charge way, way to much for their ink carts. Don't like it? Buy a laser jet.
So make the building 11 stories.
Apple needs to bring more to the party. Like a la carte cable channels. That would be "One More Thing..." that would make me drop the cash.
The a la carte cable channels are a function of what the individual channels allow. Lots of channels are making lots of deals with lots of streaming companies to allow just that. Others are sticking strictly with the cable providers [for now]. Apple made an exclusive deal with HBO recently so you can get that already (app is HBO Now as opposed to HBO Go). CBS is 'out there' too but they're crazy expensive. ESPN made a deal with Sling. I suspect that in five years you'll be able to get most anything (but there will still be some bundling. So ... you'll have what you want but it is unlikely that any will be limited strictly to Apple, which is a good thing because AppleTV sucks.
The new Roku app is in Beta now. You can download it if you're a paying member. It looks very nice but NQRFPT yet. They're still adding features and working out inconsistencies in navigation. I've yet to discover an operational bug.
http://web.archive.org/web/201...
Disclosure: This post was written in collaboration with the American Egg Board, who is encouraging consumers to get a fresh start on health by eating real, all natural foods like eggs. I have a similar vision, so this partnership was a good match for me and my readers.
So Recipe Girl did indeed disclose. Was it there the day she wrote it? Probably.
Hopefully his answer will be a little more specific than simply 'competitive'. I'm not looking for an exact number but, given the technology at hand, a somewhat narrow range would be nice.
What is the cost per KW for the build/deployment and resultant cost per KWh for the end user?
A few low-power analog stations are actually still operating in the UHF band. Their cutoff date is Sep of this year.
A full list of the current [re]allocation for UHF can be found here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
According to that, only one auction has taken place.
Nothing has changed for VHF.
Wi-Fi could now blanket urban areas
At 400-700Mhz what kind of bandwidth can they accommodate?
Since the article tells us neither the number of channels they'll open or the width of those channels, I'm not sure that's knowable yet.
I think the formula is 2.5bits/s/hz/cell under perfect conditions.
What you wrote is closest to the actual reality. As such, lifting the U.S. embargo isn't going to make them a free country. They will remain poor and ... incommunicado... so long as they dictatorship exists. If Castro et al had wanted cell phones and internet, they could have had it right along with the rest of the world, but that would likely result in the end of Castro et al.
Our embargo has not, in any way, prevented them from doing that. It isn't like the U.S. is the sole source of that technology.
I cut cable tv about 6 months ago. I had the tv/internet/phone package with no 'premium' channels. My monthly bill was $190. My bill is now ~$100 plus the ~$10/mo I pay to Netflix and the ~$5/mo I 'gift' to Plex. Total outlay is ~$115. That's a savings of $75/mo or $900/yr.
...
I would call that going down 'much'.
I putting my first year's savings into an upgraded network for my home (dedicated media server and tons of drive space).
I figure about ~$100/yr thereafter to keep it current.
Most importantly
1) I never have to watch commercials anymore, and
2) I'm inundated with as much excellent tv as I care to watch.
I don't know if it is feasible but I kind of like that idea. What are the downsides?
In most places I've worked have the thermostat locked behind a plexiglass enclosure.
Closer inspection, in every case, reveals that the lock is for show only; it having been jimmied long ago. Which is good since nobody has the key anyway.
And that's okay except for those who decide that since it is way to hot/cold for them, they'll turn it all the way in the other direction rather than to a temperature they prefer.
The drone is shot just after 1:58 at a alt of 270ft. (315ft or 96 meters adjusted)
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/V46bQUh.jpg
The drone crashes just before 2:03 at an alt of -45ft. (0 meters adjusted)
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/iWNV4NG.jpg
So, it took ~4.5 seconds fall 96 meters.
Given [d=\frac{gt^2}{2}], that is right on the money. If he faked it, it's a damn good fake.
For cows whose feed included 3NOP, methane emissions dropped, on average, by 30%.
And what will that reduction mean in terms of temperature reduction? Is the answer zero?
Ideally there would be a wireless transmitter in the PC, and a downstairs wireless receiver box into which I could plug the keyboard, mouse, and of course, the TV via an HDMI cable
I can't think of any OOB ready-made solutions to this. At least none that would be cheaper than buying a dedicated downstairs computer. Even then it would be a kludge: you could teamview from the downstairs computer into the upstairs computer; that would do it but it would be clunky.
First: What is not noted in the OP is the statement at the end of the article that [this] vulnerability has been fixed. This article interested me in that I recently installed one of their fancy wifi-enabled thermostats, the VisionPRO 8000. I was a little disappointed that I had to access it through their site rather than locally but it is nice to be able to control it from my office computer. I can't imagine I'll ever have the need to access it when away from home. I don't see much risk inasmuch as the worst that can happen is a hacker might make me a bit too chilly. Of course, I don't know that for sure. Perhaps there is some deeper hack that can gain access to my network as a whole through that interface. Then again, there are probably so many holes in my system now that a hacker would just take a more obvious route through one of the garage-door-sized holes.
Yea, they can sell it for $4990 ... but to whom? Visit
http://howmanypeopleareinspace...
As of this post, there are Three people in space. Sometimes it's nine.
It doesn't take a rocket science to realize that there is not enough current demand for anything to make it cost effective.
Even if we increase demand 100 fold, it still isn't going to be worthwhile.
And I don't think they're going to do that. Frankly, having even three folks up there is a bit of a waste.
That's a fake site, probably kat.to. It used to be correct but was hijacked about 6 or so months ago. kat.cr is the current one but it may not be for long; things change quickly in that world.
Which may or may not be relevant. Since we do not know that the two events were not caused by common point of failure (i.e. the fiber backbone and microwave system were powered by the same system, etc) then we can't know the likelihood of it happening again, and again, and again. That's what the risk analysis is for. Perhaps a third option really is the cheapest way forward.
From a political point of view, this can be leveraged into something a little more significant. Consider
http://www2.ntia.doc.gov/grant...
They were granted $8M to improve their backbone. Perhaps a decent politician can now leverage this outage into $16M.