I've just watched this documentary https://youtu.be/U1Qt6a-vaNM and it just reminds me how evil this is, and how we should be resisting it. If we could be bothered that is.
Sorry Ara team; but the whole concept is a fail. I do lots of electronic product development, and this concept has so many problems
- Electromagnetic Compliance. Every time a new module is created, are you going to go through the expense & time of compliance testing. - Where is consumer demand for such a device? Consumers are becoming dumber; they are flat out finding a power button, let alone selecting complex modules for a phone. This makes it a niche market device, thus low volume, thus expensive. - Connectors in any design are one of the common fail points. In this design you have lots of them. - There's a lot of effort just to reliably mechanically retain the modules. - Having discrete modules makes layout inefficient, as you have to per-decide the size of a function. - A lot of added complexity/power consumption, as each module needs a hardware/software interface layer common to all modules to abstract their native interface. - plus all the other mentioned in the link
Now if Google has some spare cash lying around, I've got a lot great projects going on they could invest in!!!
Did you notice the awesome shot of our atmosphere in that photo, and how thin it looks. Reminds of this visualisation. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes....
And don't forget, that your gut flora has a huge influence on how many of those calories are made available for the body. You really need to a stool analysis and perform an energy balance difference.
I ditched inkjet printers because the ink dries out before the next time I want to print something. Toner cartridges don't seem to have that problem.
Can Epson overcome that problem?
This. To anyone who will listen: buy a color laser. They are cheap compared to the pain of most ink jets. I don't miss the Bzzzt... Rarararar... Merrrrt.... Merrrrt..... Merrrrt... Nytnytnytnytnyt.... S$@t still lines missing on my print.
It's kind annoying to WiTricity claim they invented something (resonant charging) that the LF RFID industry has been doing for the last 30 years. ie Very HiQ coils to efficiently transmit to passive RFID tags (which also have HiQ resonant coils).
Magnetic fields can be well directed by permeable materials like ferrites, but as soon as you have to bridge the air-gap, you get 1/r^3 power loss. Can you do phased array effects like steerable antennas like the article claims? Yes, but probably not in a way that is beneficial to bridging the air-gap loss. Here is a challenge. I give you 4 little round neodymium super magnets, and I'm going to let you rotate them into whatever static position you like, with the goal of producing twice as much magnetic attraction a distance 4x their diameter. Think you can do it? Besides terrible efficiency you are also limited in power as described in ESTI EN 300-330-1 There is a specific allowance for magnetic near field from 119 to 135kHz of 70dBuA/m.
As for safety. These magnetic fields are fairly benign. We have thousands of these transmit at the legal limit on big 1200mmx600mm air coils, and have to our knowledge have not had an incident (ie with a pacemaker).
Why does the USA have such ludicrous damages amounts? As a product manufacturer, I know it is damn hard to take any idea into profit in the bank. The idea (ie patent) makes up 1% of the actual effort needed. Taking that idea and actually making it work properly, marketing it, setting up distribution and service networks take up most of the effort. The USA court system places way too much monetary value on the actual patent.
Chrome does a fantastic job rendering pdfs very quickly. Why do you continue to use that pathetic browser?
I use both browsers. I use Chrome mostly for google sites, and anything that won't load in Firefox. I use Firefox mostly because I want Chrome to have competition, but also because noscript is still better on FF than on Chrome. And also because chrome's built-in cookie control is total shit which breaks sites so you either don't use it or you have a hard time with many websites, but cookiesafe works great all the time.
Plus it has proper side tabs with the Tree Tab control. Something chrome removed a couple of years ago.
Sometimes bailouts are worth it. Take Rolls Royce for example. They went broke designing a 3 shaft jet engine, were bailed out by the govt, and are now hugely successful. British Leyand on the other hand....
Wow, sounds like a sucky culture in the USA. I employ >50 (Australia: including >10 engineers) and I don't expect anyone to work more than 40 hours. Sure, I could be richer if I flogged my salaried staff, but life is more than about work.
I'm with you. IPV6 addresses are just unwieldy. They should have made it 64 bits not 128 bits. ABCD:1234:ACDF:5678 would have been much more manageable.
Actually, Google could add a lot of value here. They could create a vote buying system, much like their reverse auction ad bid system.
Have each senator put up the issues they are happy swing vote on and then have all the interest groups bid away. It's probably the next logical step in what is effectively now a bribe based system of legislation.
A pittance. we run 10vms on a single R720 which cost 15k and will last us 5 years and requires a few hours maintain economic a month. Way cheaper than 'the cloud'
Huh? This article is about an application processor (imx6), and you are comparing it to a cortex M microcontroller (PSOC series which is more equivalent to the freescale Kinetis series) They are different things. Freescale are offering 10 years guaranteed availability on much of their range, have great documentation, and have moved their build environment over to yocto.
Australia has a minimum wage of around $17USD/hour (around $20AUD) which increases 20% if you are a casual. Our poor people do well.
You know how everyone whines about big corporates making too much money; well this is the best way to redistribute that wealth. Paying your poor people well, helps lift them out of poverty.
Usually the cars that are meant to come with HID headlights will not blind you, because the reflector is designed to cut off the beam above headlight level.
The problem is cars that come over rises or banked coners.
#this# HID headlights, especially those front lens type ones, are now so bright, that they leave you night blind for a second or so when inevitably hit you the eyeballs. If car makers want super bright headlights, they need to be designed to not be able to night blind other drivers.
I know you young kids don't read the bible anymore, so let me quote something from Revelation for you.
"Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666."
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I've just watched this documentary
https://youtu.be/U1Qt6a-vaNM
and it just reminds me how evil this is, and how we should be resisting it. If we could be bothered that is.
Sorry Ara team; but the whole concept is a fail.
I do lots of electronic product development, and this concept has so many problems
- Electromagnetic Compliance. Every time a new module is created, are you going to go through the expense & time of compliance testing.
- Where is consumer demand for such a device? Consumers are becoming dumber; they are flat out finding a power button, let alone selecting complex modules for a phone. This makes it a niche market device, thus low volume, thus expensive.
- Connectors in any design are one of the common fail points. In this design you have lots of them.
- There's a lot of effort just to reliably mechanically retain the modules.
- Having discrete modules makes layout inefficient, as you have to per-decide the size of a function.
- A lot of added complexity/power consumption, as each module needs a hardware/software interface layer common to all modules to abstract their native interface.
- plus all the other mentioned in the link
Now if Google has some spare cash lying around, I've got a lot great projects going on they could invest in!!!
>rise of the bridge physics phenomenon
Too young to remember Bridge Builder?
And what about the multi platform game Bridge Constructor which has been out for years now.
Did you notice the awesome shot of our atmosphere in that photo, and how thin it looks.
Reminds of this visualisation.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes....
Um sorry, crime rates have gone down in the US. Nobody has pinpointed exactly why.
Lead in fuel was a significant part of the story.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...
And don't forget, that your gut flora has a huge influence on how many of those calories are made available for the body. You really need to a stool analysis and perform an energy balance difference.
I ditched inkjet printers because the ink dries out before the next time I want to print something. Toner cartridges don't seem to have that problem.
Can Epson overcome that problem?
This. To anyone who will listen: buy a color laser. They are cheap compared to the pain of most ink jets. I don't miss the
Bzzzt... Rarararar... Merrrrt.... Merrrrt..... Merrrrt... Nytnytnytnytnyt.... S$@t still lines missing on my print.
Color laser toners are cheap on fleabay.
I design near field low frequency RFID readers.
It's kind annoying to WiTricity claim they invented something (resonant charging) that the LF RFID industry has been doing for the last 30 years. ie Very HiQ coils to efficiently transmit to passive RFID tags (which also have HiQ resonant coils).
Magnetic fields can be well directed by permeable materials like ferrites, but as soon as you have to bridge the air-gap, you get 1/r^3 power loss. Can you do phased array effects like steerable antennas like the article claims? Yes, but probably not in a way that is beneficial to bridging the air-gap loss.
Here is a challenge. I give you 4 little round neodymium super magnets, and I'm going to let you rotate them into whatever static position you like, with the goal of producing twice as much magnetic attraction a distance 4x their diameter. Think you can do it?
Besides terrible efficiency you are also limited in power as described in ESTI EN 300-330-1
There is a specific allowance for magnetic near field from 119 to 135kHz of 70dBuA/m.
As for safety. These magnetic fields are fairly benign. We have thousands of these transmit at the legal limit on big 1200mmx600mm air coils, and have to our knowledge have not had an incident (ie with a pacemaker).
Why does the USA have such ludicrous damages amounts?
As a product manufacturer, I know it is damn hard to take any idea into profit in the bank.
The idea (ie patent) makes up 1% of the actual effort needed. Taking that idea and actually making it work properly, marketing it, setting up distribution and service networks take up most of the effort.
The USA court system places way too much monetary value on the actual patent.
Chrome does a fantastic job rendering pdfs very quickly.
Why do you continue to use that pathetic browser?
I use both browsers. I use Chrome mostly for google sites, and anything that won't load in Firefox. I use Firefox mostly because I want Chrome to have competition, but also because noscript is still better on FF than on Chrome. And also because chrome's built-in cookie control is total shit which breaks sites so you either don't use it or you have a hard time with many websites, but cookiesafe works great all the time.
Plus it has proper side tabs with the Tree Tab control. Something chrome removed a couple of years ago.
Sometimes bailouts are worth it. Take Rolls Royce for example. They went broke designing a 3 shaft jet engine, were bailed out by the govt, and are now hugely successful. British Leyand on the other hand....
Wow, sounds like a sucky culture in the USA.
I employ >50 (Australia: including >10 engineers) and I don't expect anyone to work more than 40 hours.
Sure, I could be richer if I flogged my salaried staff, but life is more than about work.
So what about domain connected computers that don't use a Microsoft account as typically found in most businesses; can they be upgraded?
I'm with you. IPV6 addresses are just unwieldy. They should have made it 64 bits not 128 bits. ABCD:1234:ACDF:5678 would have been much more manageable.
Actually, Google could add a lot of value here.
They could create a vote buying system, much like their reverse auction ad bid system.
Have each senator put up the issues they are happy swing vote on and then have all the interest groups bid away.
It's probably the next logical step in what is effectively now a bribe based system of legislation.
A pittance. we run 10vms on a single R720 which cost 15k and will last us 5 years and requires a few hours maintain economic a month. Way cheaper than 'the cloud'
Huh? This article is about an application processor (imx6), and you are comparing it to a cortex M microcontroller (PSOC series which is more equivalent to the freescale Kinetis series)
They are different things.
Freescale are offering 10 years guaranteed availability on much of their range, have great documentation, and have moved their build environment over to yocto.
No vertical tabs 10 years after widescreen displays started spreading widely?
Also (not so much about UI), if you have many open tabs, chrome eats much less CPU on the background, but is much more memory hungry.
Which is why I don't use chrome. Tree style tabs on ff is still the best implementation of tabs I know of.
That's weird. The link I followed showed the whole article without registration.
You raise a great point.
(btw the min wage is just over $17AUD/hr, so I was wrong at $20)
I found this WSJ article that adjusts for cost of living. Interesting to see where the USA is.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/au...
Australia has a minimum wage of around $17USD/hour (around $20AUD) which increases 20% if you are a casual. Our poor people do well.
You know how everyone whines about big corporates making too much money; well this is the best way to redistribute that wealth.
Paying your poor people well, helps lift them out of poverty.
Usually the cars that are meant to come with HID headlights will not blind you, because the reflector is designed to cut off the beam above headlight level.
The problem is cars that come over rises or banked coners.
#this#
HID headlights, especially those front lens type ones, are now so bright, that they leave you night blind for a second or so when inevitably hit you the eyeballs. If car makers want super bright headlights, they need to be designed to not be able to night blind other drivers.
I know you young kids don't read the bible anymore, so let me quote something from Revelation for you.
"Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666."
In subtropical brisbane we 220 litres per person per day. And yes we shower every day. So that's almost a quarter of what Californian residents use.