It's got nothing to do with anything except that the news media loves sensationalism. To that end, they'd like to turn every death into a tragedy.
It's not about hero-worship of Jobs. It's about the news echo-chamber, loving to hear themselves talk.
TV, esp news on TV is so bad, we decided to put our TV away for three months (we have three young kids). Guess what, nobody really misses it when it isn't there, so we are selling the TV and just keeping a projector for 'special event' nights.
I did a survey 15 years ago amongst bus drivers for their preference for a control panel that controlled the bus aircon system. The great majority wanted words like (OFF FAN A/C DEMIST) rather than symbols, yet what you see on most control panels is symbols. Primarily it is a cost saving so manufacturers don't have to change the design for different language markets.
And the next app will be a virtual reality overlay that delivers whatever metrics you like. Health, wealth, criminal history. This will be a boon for criminals!
Thanks for the detailed reply. I agree with most of your points. but..
In Australia, the surveying is usually pretty good, at least in the cities. This is mainly because historically the government was responsible for most underground services, not lazy private contractors like in the states. (That has changed now of course) Like all things, the tech will improve, maps will get better, and maybe in 20 years it becomes a usefull tool.
A great app for augmented reailty would be underground service location.
Millions of people are digging up streets every day. If you could map all the underground services like sewer, water, electrical, data, storm water, you could use your iphone type device to 'look into' the ground before you begin excavation. Obviously limited by the accuracy of the existing mapping data.
Well said tibit. In my mind, HP = High Quailty Test Equipment. Every engineer who has been around for a while, will have some piece of test gear with HP on it.
You must be living in a// universe. We have run exchange server for 10+ years on SBS with OWA for 20 users and spend only a couple of hours a year managing it.
Is it really that hard? I have run SBS4.5/2003 Exchange server for 20 users for 10 years with OWA, and would spend less than a day per year managing it.
Which reduces the quality of the radio signal for anyone downwave from the power harvesting site. It effectively steals power from the transmitter intended to provide service to those more distant than you from the transmitter.
Permissible is interception for purpose of reception of the signal, such as a crystal radio, at a small scale. Not permissible is powering your lights, robots, or anything else that does not simply turn the signal back into its intended form.
It may be permissible to leech power from a WiFi signal in order to power a device that will use the data in the stream if you could be sure you're stealing power from signals intended for you and no one else.
But AFAIK the rules are to protect man-made signals, unless the scientific community have petitioned to protect their ability to study background radiation by preventing the same harvesting of power from natural radio sources, else they'll have to do their studies elsewhere.
Maybe a dumb question, but do RF sinks like this act like 'black holes' for radio waves, affecting the reception quality within a kind-of 'event horizon' vicinity (maybe even requiring more power at the transmitter) ?
Not Really. EM comes in two main flavours Near Field & Far Field. In the near field you have a good chance of 'loading' the antenna, thus 'robbing' power but you need to be mighty close at high frequencies. eg. Within few cm at 1GHz. In the far field, the EM wave propogates, and you as the reciever have no influence on the transmitter. Do you rob other recievers around you? Yes, but the effect when compared to buildings, trees, the earth would negliable. A propogating wave will also fresnel around you. You would be like a speck dust to sunlight.
Maybe you should ask Australia. Enviromission have been planning to build a 1km high stack for the last 10 years, and it's still not off the ground. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnviroMission
You should have been marked -1Troll not +5Insightful.
Isreal (a tiny sliver of land) is surrounded on all sides by Arabs (who vastly outnumber them) who are mostly Muslims, who's stated aim is the destruction of Isreal. It has been the Arab neighbours that have waged wars against Israel, not the otherway around. Palestine refugees only exist because their Arab brothers (Jordan/Egypt etal) refuse to let them resetle, thus they become an antogonstic pawn (PLO etc) against Israel.
Was recently in London, and at one of those dodgy computer shops in Islington, saw a box of about 100 dell laptop power supplies being opened (no compliance labels). Some guy was peeling genuine looking dell power supply labels from a big roll (with serial numbers) and sticking them on. Where there's a market, there's an entreprenuer.
Here are my ideas which are a twist on yours - patent owners must be commercially utilizing their patent to keep it. (within 4 years of patent application) - software and business process should not be patentable (ie 1 click) - accidental infringement be not initially punishable - the bar for novelty to receive a patent be way higher than it is now. - patent application / renewal fees be based on number of patents held eg x = v * n(n+1)/2 where v = the base patent cost. Lets say v = $100 1 Patent = $100/annum to maintain 2 Patents = $300/annum to maintain 10 Patents = $5.5k/annum to maintain 100 Patents = $500k/annum to maintain 1000 Patents = $50M/annum to maintain
This would force very large companies / trolls to only keep their best patents and toss out the dross polluting the patent system. You would need rules to stop companies spawning sub related companies to get around the intent.
While I agree with your ranting, I have a more productive solution.
For years I put up with crap box all in one WiFi/Routers that would fall over almost daily (in multiple locations as we had moved house) (the reboot walk). My solution: Cable Modem -> Crap Box AllInOne (But only for the NAT function) -> Dedicated Cheap Gigabit Ethernet Switch -> POE Ubiquti UniFi AP My printer (Ethernet) and NAS (Synology DS211J) plug direct into the Ethernet Switch.
Finally a setup that is cheap and doesn't crash. Been going strong for about 2 months without a reboot.
In Heaven: The cooks are French, The policemen are English, The mechanics are German, The lovers are Italian, The bankers are Swiss. In Hell: The cooks are English, The policemen are German, The mechanics are French, The lovers are Swiss, The bankers are Italian.
You are referring to ROHS, which replace 60/40 Tin/Lead solders with mostly Tin only solder such SAC 305. This required the electronics industry to replace their Wavesoldering and Reflow machines at great expense, then operate those machines 20oC higher using much more energy and creating more dross. High tin connections are known to crate Tin Whiskers, and fracture more easily when exposed to shocks (thermal or mechnical). There was no proof given to the industry that the lead in electronics could actually leach in a land fill enough to cause contamination of ground water (There is at most a couple of grams of lead per assembly) which I believe was the main reason for the ban.
No fiat money system has ever lasted forever, especially when combined with fractional reserve banking. This is because the debt becomes exponential compared to physical goods (see chrismartenson.com and zerohedge, also cavaliers of credit by steve keen) The privately owned Fed is currently printing Trillions of dollars of money Wiemar style (QE2)(yes it still being auctioned, but it is buy back merry go round). This effectively confiscating the savings of your retirees through deflation of the value of your dollar. I'm afraid the USA (and much of the rest of the world) is currently playing out a fiat money end game.
Religion is only about Faith. There is nothing more to it than belief, and not only is there no way to systematically test what is taught, but it is discouraged as indicative of too little Faith.
Science is about reproducing a theory. My theory is a commitment to genuine Christian faith produces radical good change within a person, and I have seen thousands of lives radically changed by this Christian faith commitment. Lives that were selfish, abusive to those around them, destructive to themselves, radically changed for the good by merely a change of 'belief'.
Heb11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." This evidence is plain within the Christian community, but because most on/. don't choose this path, they will never able to recognize this.
You are already at 5 Insighful, but deserve a 6. Inherently, people do NOT want to steal (otherwise shops would keep all their goods behind glass counters). As you correctly state, it is a pricing problem.10c/song $2/movie would be the sweet spot for western countries.
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It's got nothing to do with anything except that the news media loves sensationalism. To that end, they'd like to turn every death into a tragedy.
It's not about hero-worship of Jobs. It's about the news echo-chamber, loving to hear themselves talk.
TV, esp news on TV is so bad, we decided to put our TV away for three months (we have three young kids).
Guess what, nobody really misses it when it isn't there, so we are selling the TV and just keeping a projector for 'special event' nights.
I concur.
I did a survey 15 years ago amongst bus drivers for their preference for a control panel that controlled the bus aircon system.
The great majority wanted words like (OFF FAN A/C DEMIST) rather than symbols, yet what you see on most control panels is symbols.
Primarily it is a cost saving so manufacturers don't have to change the design for different language markets.
And the next app will be a virtual reality overlay that delivers whatever metrics you like. Health, wealth, criminal history. This will be a boon for criminals!
Thanks for the detailed reply. I agree with most of your points. but..
In Australia, the surveying is usually pretty good, at least in the cities. This is mainly because historically the government was responsible for most underground services, not lazy private contractors like in the states. (That has changed now of course)
Like all things, the tech will improve, maps will get better, and maybe in 20 years it becomes a usefull tool.
sorry labnet, this is already an iPhone app
Damn... back to the batcave.....
A great app for augmented reailty would be underground service location.
Millions of people are digging up streets every day. If you could map all the underground services like sewer, water, electrical, data, storm water, you could use your iphone type device to 'look into' the ground before you begin excavation.
Obviously limited by the accuracy of the existing mapping data.
Less than that. The US has $15tn of total debt, roughly, of which slightly under $1tn is Chinese. Not a particularly impressive figure.
Are you boasting?
15T / 65M workers = 230k debt per productive person of which you owe the Chinese $15k each.
Well said tibit.
In my mind, HP = High Quailty Test Equipment.
Every engineer who has been around for a while, will have some piece of test gear with HP on it.
You must be living in a // universe.
We have run exchange server for 10+ years on SBS with OWA for 20 users and spend only a couple of hours a year managing it.
Is it really that hard?
I have run SBS4.5/2003 Exchange server for 20 users for 10 years with OWA, and would spend less than a day per year managing it.
Which reduces the quality of the radio signal for anyone downwave from the power harvesting site. It effectively steals power from the transmitter intended to provide service to those more distant than you from the transmitter.
Permissible is interception for purpose of reception of the signal, such as a crystal radio, at a small scale. Not permissible is powering your lights, robots, or anything else that does not simply turn the signal back into its intended form.
It may be permissible to leech power from a WiFi signal in order to power a device that will use the data in the stream if you could be sure you're stealing power from signals intended for you and no one else.
But AFAIK the rules are to protect man-made signals, unless the scientific community have petitioned to protect their ability to study background radiation by preventing the same harvesting of power from natural radio sources, else they'll have to do their studies elsewhere.
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing!
Maybe a dumb question, but do RF sinks like this act like 'black holes' for radio waves, affecting the reception quality within a kind-of 'event horizon' vicinity (maybe even requiring more power at the transmitter) ?
Not Really.
EM comes in two main flavours
Near Field & Far Field.
In the near field you have a good chance of 'loading' the antenna, thus 'robbing' power but you need to be mighty close at high frequencies. eg. Within few cm at 1GHz.
In the far field, the EM wave propogates, and you as the reciever have no influence on the transmitter.
Do you rob other recievers around you? Yes, but the effect when compared to buildings, trees, the earth would negliable. A propogating wave will also fresnel around you. You would be like a speck dust to sunlight.
Maybe you should ask Australia.
Enviromission have been planning to build a 1km high stack for the last 10 years, and it's still not off the ground.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnviroMission
You should have been marked -1Troll not +5Insightful.
Isreal (a tiny sliver of land) is surrounded on all sides by Arabs (who vastly outnumber them) who are mostly Muslims, who's stated aim is the destruction of Isreal.
It has been the Arab neighbours that have waged wars against Israel, not the otherway around.
Palestine refugees only exist because their Arab brothers (Jordan/Egypt etal) refuse to let them resetle, thus they become an antogonstic pawn (PLO etc) against Israel.
Was recently in London, and at one of those dodgy computer shops in Islington, saw a box of about 100 dell laptop power supplies being opened (no compliance labels). Some guy was peeling genuine looking dell power supply labels from a big roll (with serial numbers) and sticking them on. Where there's a market, there's an entreprenuer.
Here are my ideas which are a twist on yours
- patent owners must be commercially utilizing their patent to keep it. (within 4 years of patent application)
- software and business process should not be patentable (ie 1 click)
- accidental infringement be not initially punishable
- the bar for novelty to receive a patent be way higher than it is now.
- patent application / renewal fees be based on number of patents held
eg x = v * n(n+1)/2 where v = the base patent cost.
Lets say v = $100
1 Patent = $100/annum to maintain
2 Patents = $300/annum to maintain
10 Patents = $5.5k/annum to maintain
100 Patents = $500k/annum to maintain
1000 Patents = $50M/annum to maintain
This would force very large companies / trolls to only keep their best patents and toss out the dross polluting the patent system.
You would need rules to stop companies spawning sub related companies to get around the intent.
Australia got rid of 1c and 2c coins 20 years ago.
Hopefully the 5c will go as well some time.
Bob Pease and Jim Williams (who also died recently) were legends in analog electronics.
Bob was still an active contributor to many columns.
His last is here http://electronicdesign.com/article/analog-and-mixed-signal/What-s-All-This-Solo-Hiking-Stuff-Anyhow-.aspx
RIP Bob
While I agree with your ranting, I have a more productive solution.
For years I put up with crap box all in one WiFi/Routers that would fall over almost daily (in multiple locations as we had moved house) (the reboot walk).
My solution:
Cable Modem -> Crap Box AllInOne (But only for the NAT function) -> Dedicated Cheap Gigabit Ethernet Switch -> POE Ubiquti UniFi AP
My printer (Ethernet) and NAS (Synology DS211J) plug direct into the Ethernet Switch.
Finally a setup that is cheap and doesn't crash. Been going strong for about 2 months without a reboot.
In Heaven: The cooks are French, The policemen are English, The mechanics are German, The lovers are Italian, The bankers are Swiss.
In Hell: The cooks are English, The policemen are German, The mechanics are French, The lovers are Swiss, The bankers are Italian.
You are referring to ROHS, which replace 60/40 Tin/Lead solders with mostly Tin only solder such SAC 305. This required the electronics industry to replace their Wavesoldering and Reflow machines at great expense, then operate those machines 20oC higher using much more energy and creating more dross. High tin connections are known to crate Tin Whiskers, and fracture more easily when exposed to shocks (thermal or mechnical).
There was no proof given to the industry that the lead in electronics could actually leach in a land fill enough to cause contamination of ground water (There is at most a couple of grams of lead per assembly) which I believe was the main reason for the ban.
Hmmm. I don't think you get it.
No fiat money system has ever lasted forever, especially when combined with fractional reserve banking. This is because the debt becomes exponential compared to physical goods (see chrismartenson.com and zerohedge, also cavaliers of credit by steve keen)
The privately owned Fed is currently printing Trillions of dollars of money Wiemar style (QE2)(yes it still being auctioned, but it is buy back merry go round).
This effectively confiscating the savings of your retirees through deflation of the value of your dollar.
I'm afraid the USA (and much of the rest of the world) is currently playing out a fiat money end game.
Religion is only about Faith. There is nothing more to it than belief, and not only is there no way to systematically test what is taught, but it is discouraged as indicative of too little Faith.
Science is about reproducing a theory. My theory is a commitment to genuine Christian faith produces radical good change within a person, and I have seen thousands of lives radically changed by this Christian faith commitment. /. don't choose this path, they will never able to recognize this.
Lives that were selfish, abusive to those around them, destructive to themselves, radically changed for the good by merely a change of 'belief'.
Heb11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
This evidence is plain within the Christian community, but because most on
Except most of the time their results are wrong. I have seen them perform so many flawed experiments that I no longer watch that show.
Which is why you will always be a worker drone.
You are already at 5 Insighful, but deserve a 6.
Inherently, people do NOT want to steal (otherwise shops would keep all their goods behind glass counters).
As you correctly state, it is a pricing problem.10c/song $2/movie would be the sweet spot for western countries.