Many things have been pointed out that would really help; however, the current major stakeholders have a vested interest in keeping the status quo.
It's actually quite impressive how many of these problems have been solved, but we can't seem to get the solutions into use. This applies not only at the federal government level, but in fact at nearly every level of activity of mankind. You name it, and someone has probably already found a better way to do it, and yet most people will keep on doing it the hard way.
As far as US government, various ideas stand out: - Require politicians to read the bills before they can vote on them. - Require nearly complete transparency in government (via the Internet), showing every meeting and every dollar spent. - Require every political ad to include a link to indicate the detailed sources of funding for the ad. - Don't indicate any party affiliations on ballots, nor allow any "straight ticket" votes. - Use a revision control system on the actual laws, with HTML links to relevant court decisions, and a wiki-type entry for each
to allow controlled discussion on the actual fallout of each law.
I'd really like to see some way to keep stupidity out of politics, but that's really quite a difficult challenge. Either the ideas don't scale or generalize well, or else there's some way to co-opt them by the underhanded. But I'm sure there are some people who've put much more thought into this than I have.
Yes, but the free press is working for the almighty dollar, and therefore isn't quite "free". There's also such a cacophony of voices that trying to find signal in all the noise is quite a challenge.
I'd like to think that appropriate application of computer science can help solve this problem. Something like a truly well-moderated discussion forum (the likes of which I have not yet seen).
Yes, you win. Note the two main ideas: 1) Use the existing beam breakers to get the timing down to whatever precision is needed. 2) Have the beam breaker also trigger the camera or whatever system is recording the bar code or other easily-machine-identifiable visual code. The camera part doesn't need to be timing critical, in this setup, since the beam breaker system is dealing with that. Of course, there's still the matter of writing a bit of software to tie everything together, but that should be pretty elementary. (If you don't have an existing beam breaker timer system, then you could probably find something at instructables.com.)
Why not just draw the map as it's shown in Wikipedia, where each claim line is shown and labeled as just that: a "claim". The U-shaped line is China's claim, this line is Taiwan's claim, this line is Vietnam's claim, etc. I suppose the legend for all the claims might get a little large. Maybe the word "claim" is too overloaded. Perhaps "suggestion" (or similar) may work better.
Fails to answer the question. Yes, once a coordinate system is assigned, then you can label a spin. But how do you decide which way any axis should go in the first place?
Hmm. At certain places (of employment), they use a proxy that always forces Google searches to have SafeSearch on. Using https for Google appears to bypass this particular constraint. For the moment, anyway.
Rather, it just means being able to hook up to a wifi network that requires logging in to a proxy server in order to access the web. This is a very common setup at many companies, where wifi is provided, but you must authenticate yourself to a proxy server in order to use it. (This is beyond authenticating yourself to the wifi access point.)
It's not that you can't make a sports car that's capable of carrying kids around; there have been several. Rather, it's that when an automaker aims solely for performance, they tend to sacrifice things like back seats in order to achieve lighter weight and better aerodynamics. When an automaker aims at anything else, then all aspects of performance tend to be compromised to some extent. This generally can't be helped, if you want to make an affordable car. Either way, the aim tends to stand out to car enthusiasts.
Set up a room with the cameras all around, all pointing toward the middle. Record from all cameras at once (this is perhaps the tricky part). Then you should be able to reproject the recorded data to create a virtual camera anywhere in the room, showing any angle. Think Photosynth, but with video.
Recording multiple streams simultaneously is difficult, since one USB host will only be able to handle a few cameras recording at a time (as few as 2 if the video is uncompressed). You can put multiple USB cards into a PC and push the bottleneck a bit further down. But ultimately this probably requires multiple coordinated PCs, which the poster may not have available.
I actually like how the RX-8 looks, but I agree that it looks like the wrong type of car compared to its predecessor (ie, it looks more like a sporty car for people with kids rather than a true sports car).
I had to read the Wiki article to understand this myself. The initial description suggests that it should be more efficient, given all the moving parts that it doesn't need (camshaft, valves, etc.). However, one of the main issues appears to be that the shape of the combustion chamber doesn't lend itself to good and complete combustion. There's typically a fair amount of unburned fuel left at the end of the power cycle.
In human matters, there is usually no such thing as objectivity. Unless you can see into the hearts of all people as well as completely understand the whole context, then everything is subjective. Even if a picture or video completely reveals exactly what visibly happens, that's only one side to the story. You can judge the actions, but you may never know all the circumstances.
I don't believe you in the slightest. PRML means that the drive is already using statistical likelihood to even read the data that it wrote there. Note that writing zeros to a drive doesn't mean literally writing a null signal to the disk, since there must always be a mix of bits in order for the data to be clocked properly. Second, the bits on the disk shift around each time they are written (which is why you need "blank" space between sectors, and why sectors went to 4KB instead of 512B). There are plenty of other reasons why data that's zeroed out is gone.
The 60% figure you allude to is most likely the amount of data that really wasn't overwritten in the first place. Or else, the drives in question were old enough to be pre-PRML. In any case, there are precious few folks' data that is worth this kind of consideration in the first place.
For the most part, people are just wastefully destroying good hard drives that could be used for other purposes. In fact, so often when drives are removed from good working computers, the computers themselves get scrapped because people are too silly to figure out how to get them working again (and the deinstallers often throw away sleds, cables, screws, and other custom bits that are needed to fit everything together).
Regardless of the whole "PC is dead" argument, I've found Newegg's website the best and most helpful compared to any online retailer. Combined with their outstanding service and good prices, I think Newegg would be doing well even if they just sold dairy products.
Specifically, what I like about Newegg: 1) Comprehensive product pictures - they make their own, reasonably high-resolution, from various angles, rather than just using the manufacturer supplied one. 2) Detailed specifications - especially for computer products (somewhat lacking still for other items). It's often easiest to find specs directly from from Newegg. 3) User reviews - these are very useful once there's a critical mass of them for a given product. They tend to reveal major issues right away. 4) Links to manufacter's pages - useful in the rare event that Newegg's info is not enough.
You're agreeing with my me. 5 Ghz doesn't penetrate stuff well at all, which means obstacles both help prevent outside interference as well as block your desired signal. When you can use it, it's great, but you often can't.
Hopefully, the seat would be contoured or otherwise designed appropriately, with firm padding for the pelvic bones and lots of give for what's in between.
However, it seems that there can be little suspension travel, if any, so even without the above issue, this thing looks dangerous on imperfect roads.
Still, it's pretty impressive to take something designed without any engineering in mind and produce something even a bit functional.
That is, until the BIOS is integrated into some nasty package that's just too much pain to desolder (which is already the case sometimes).
For others, this will mean finding JTAG points or other manufacturing/diagnostic test points to hard flash the BIOS.
Still, all these things are a pain, and I don't imagine that they will be required for most PCs for quite a while. But you can follow the trend by watching smart phones.
About as good as having a car with a V8 when you can only drive in a city with 35 MPH speed limits everywhere. All it lets you do is get to the speed limit a tiny bit quicker. And give you meaningless bragging rights, I suppose.
Of course the money goes "into the system" one way or the other (unless it's just stuffed under a mattress). The question is where into the system does it go? The government just wants a bigger piece right now since it's tapped out. Of course, the government will still tend to get a piece even when the money doesn't go to it directly (via sales taxes & such), but right now they don't want to wait for that supposed "trickle down" to take place. Money going into the government is also going into "the system", since the government doesn't sit on it either. But if the government shuts down due to lack of funds, then lots of circulation channels shut down as well. So the question is never whether "the system" gets enough money, but rather, like a human body, if all the important organs are getting enough to stay alive.
I prefer to see a cause of death in obituaries, especially when the age of death is relatively young. The more I learn about different ways to die, the more I hope to avoid them.
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Many things have been pointed out that would really help; however, the current major stakeholders have a vested interest in keeping the status quo.
It's actually quite impressive how many of these problems have been solved, but we can't seem to get the solutions into use. This applies not only at the federal government level, but in fact at nearly every level of activity of mankind. You name it, and someone has probably already found a better way to do it, and yet most people will keep on doing it the hard way.
As far as US government, various ideas stand out:
- Require politicians to read the bills before they can vote on them.
- Require nearly complete transparency in government (via the Internet), showing every meeting and every dollar spent.
- Require every political ad to include a link to indicate the detailed sources of funding for the ad.
- Don't indicate any party affiliations on ballots, nor allow any "straight ticket" votes.
- Use a revision control system on the actual laws, with HTML links to relevant court decisions, and a wiki-type entry for each
to allow controlled discussion on the actual fallout of each law.
I'd really like to see some way to keep stupidity out of politics, but that's really quite a difficult challenge.
Either the ideas don't scale or generalize well, or else there's some way to co-opt them by the underhanded.
But I'm sure there are some people who've put much more thought into this than I have.
Yes, but the free press is working for the almighty dollar, and therefore isn't quite "free".
There's also such a cacophony of voices that trying to find signal in all the noise is quite a challenge.
I'd like to think that appropriate application of computer science can help solve this problem.
Something like a truly well-moderated discussion forum (the likes of which I have not yet seen).
Yes, you win. Note the two main ideas: 1) Use the existing beam breakers to get the timing down to whatever precision is needed.
2) Have the beam breaker also trigger the camera or whatever system is recording the bar code or other easily-machine-identifiable visual code.
The camera part doesn't need to be timing critical, in this setup, since the beam breaker system is dealing with that.
Of course, there's still the matter of writing a bit of software to tie everything together, but that should be pretty elementary.
(If you don't have an existing beam breaker timer system, then you could probably find something at instructables.com.)
Why not just draw the map as it's shown in Wikipedia, where each claim line is shown and labeled as just that: a "claim".
The U-shaped line is China's claim, this line is Taiwan's claim, this line is Vietnam's claim, etc. I suppose the legend for all the claims might get a little large.
Maybe the word "claim" is too overloaded. Perhaps "suggestion" (or similar) may work better.
Fails to answer the question. Yes, once a coordinate system is assigned, then you can label a spin. But how do you decide which way any axis should go in the first place?
Hmm. At certain places (of employment), they use a proxy that always forces Google searches to have SafeSearch on. Using https for Google appears to bypass this particular constraint. For the moment, anyway.
Rather, it just means being able to hook up to a wifi network that requires logging in to a proxy server in order to access the web.
This is a very common setup at many companies, where wifi is provided, but you must authenticate yourself to a proxy server in order to use it.
(This is beyond authenticating yourself to the wifi access point.)
It's not that you can't make a sports car that's capable of carrying kids around; there have been several. Rather, it's that when an automaker aims solely for performance, they tend to sacrifice things like back seats in order to achieve lighter weight and better aerodynamics. When an automaker aims at anything else, then all aspects of performance tend to be compromised to some extent. This generally can't be helped, if you want to make an affordable car. Either way, the aim tends to stand out to car enthusiasts.
Set up a room with the cameras all around, all pointing toward the middle. Record from all cameras at once (this is perhaps the tricky part). Then you should be able to reproject the recorded data to create a virtual camera anywhere in the room, showing any angle. Think Photosynth, but with video.
Recording multiple streams simultaneously is difficult, since one USB host will only be able to handle a few cameras recording at a time (as few as 2 if the video is uncompressed). You can put multiple USB cards into a PC and push the bottleneck a bit further down. But ultimately this probably requires multiple coordinated PCs, which the poster may not have available.
I actually like how the RX-8 looks, but I agree that it looks like the wrong type of car compared to its predecessor (ie, it looks more like a sporty car for people with kids rather than a true sports car).
I had to read the Wiki article to understand this myself. The initial description suggests that it should be more efficient, given all the moving parts that it doesn't need (camshaft, valves, etc.). However, one of the main issues appears to be that the shape of the combustion chamber doesn't lend itself to good and complete combustion. There's typically a fair amount of unburned fuel left at the end of the power cycle.
In human matters, there is usually no such thing as objectivity. Unless you can see into the hearts of all people as well as completely understand the whole context, then everything is subjective. Even if a picture or video completely reveals exactly what visibly happens, that's only one side to the story. You can judge the actions, but you may never know all the circumstances.
I don't believe you in the slightest. PRML means that the drive is already using statistical likelihood to even read the data that it wrote there. Note that writing zeros to a drive doesn't mean literally writing a null signal to the disk, since there must always be a mix of bits in order for the data to be clocked properly. Second, the bits on the disk shift around each time they are written (which is why you need "blank" space between sectors, and why sectors went to 4KB instead of 512B). There are plenty of other reasons why data that's zeroed out is gone.
The 60% figure you allude to is most likely the amount of data that really wasn't overwritten in the first place. Or else, the drives in question were old enough to be pre-PRML. In any case, there are precious few folks' data that is worth this kind of consideration in the first place.
For the most part, people are just wastefully destroying good hard drives that could be used for other purposes. In fact, so often when drives are removed from good working computers, the computers themselves get scrapped because people are too silly to figure out how to get them working again (and the deinstallers often throw away sleds, cables, screws, and other custom bits that are needed to fit everything together).
Regardless of the whole "PC is dead" argument, I've found Newegg's website the best and most helpful compared to any online retailer. Combined with their outstanding service and good prices, I think Newegg would be doing well even if they just sold dairy products.
Specifically, what I like about Newegg:
1) Comprehensive product pictures - they make their own, reasonably high-resolution, from various angles, rather than just using the manufacturer supplied one.
2) Detailed specifications - especially for computer products (somewhat lacking still for other items). It's often easiest to find specs directly from from Newegg.
3) User reviews - these are very useful once there's a critical mass of them for a given product. They tend to reveal major issues right away.
4) Links to manufacter's pages - useful in the rare event that Newegg's info is not enough.
Yes, which is why I added "so much".
There's also the Ubiquiti AirView, which I see is available for as low a $40 now.
You're agreeing with my me. 5 Ghz doesn't penetrate stuff well at all, which means obstacles both help prevent outside interference as well as block your desired signal. When you can use it, it's great, but you often can't.
It's call mesh networking. If everyone did it, we wouldn't need telcos (or ISPs) so much.
The only escape is the 5 Ghz band, but if you could use that, you'd be doing so in the first place.
Hopefully, the seat would be contoured or otherwise designed appropriately, with firm padding for the pelvic bones and lots of give for what's in between.
However, it seems that there can be little suspension travel, if any, so even without the above issue, this thing looks dangerous on imperfect roads.
Still, it's pretty impressive to take something designed without any engineering in mind and produce something even a bit functional.
For some, this will be cured by a soldering iron.
That is, until the BIOS is integrated into some nasty package that's just too much pain to desolder (which is already the case sometimes).
For others, this will mean finding JTAG points or other manufacturing/diagnostic test points to hard flash the BIOS.
Still, all these things are a pain, and I don't imagine that they will be required for most PCs for quite a while. But you can follow the trend by watching smart phones.
About as good as having a car with a V8 when you can only drive in a city with 35 MPH speed limits everywhere.
All it lets you do is get to the speed limit a tiny bit quicker. And give you meaningless bragging rights, I suppose.
Well, it's a two-step process, and here they are only describing step 2.
Other folks are indeed working on step 1, though.
Of course the money goes "into the system" one way or the other (unless it's just stuffed under a mattress). The question is where into the system does it go? The government just wants a bigger piece right now since it's tapped out. Of course, the government will still tend to get a piece even when the money doesn't go to it directly (via sales taxes & such), but right now they don't want to wait for that supposed "trickle down" to take place. Money going into the government is also going into "the system", since the government doesn't sit on it either. But if the government shuts down due to lack of funds, then lots of circulation channels shut down as well. So the question is never whether "the system" gets enough money, but rather, like a human body, if all the important organs are getting enough to stay alive.
I prefer to see a cause of death in obituaries, especially when the age of death is relatively young.
The more I learn about different ways to die, the more I hope to avoid them.