Nobody would ever be clever enough to generate false data.. for an iAlibi?..or clever enough to hack into and plant incriminating evidence? (not that there's ever been a security breach!)
[quote] We _could_ live at a sustainable level, if we were (collectively) willing to give up some of our luxuries. [/quote]... and we can all live in a communist paradise for ever and ever!
F-ck that noise.
The real solution is managing populations inline with resources; european nations have already collapsed their birthrates. Nobody wants to acknowledge or even discuss this, so hey ho, off to war we go!... at least our side has all the really good toys
Food supplies can grow given cheap energy. Fertilizer is almost all produced from fossil sources (LNG).
Party ends when cheap oil is over unless Fusion, mass solar, or magic picks up the slack. The first two take a decade to scale....I'm hoping for magic.
DC resistance of your skin is not the only effect here.
The admittance change from your finger adding capacitance and changing the inductive value of the antenna changes the antenna's tuning and ability to effectively radiate. This adds up to the antenna being much less effective.
For all of the millions of dollars being lost on productivity aimlessly discussing 'bars'..
Can someone please dissect the antenna and then connect it to a calibrated spectrum analyser? This is so mindbogglingly trivial to do it is beginning to hurt my soul. I do similar exercises at work with new, untested antenna designs. I am sure I am not the only one.
For comparison, do the same to other phones and publish actual measurements of received signal drops and the effect from the disturbance caused from closing your hand around the antenna. This is similar to how touching an old rabbit-ears style antenna effects the picture on a analog TV broadcast, if the effect is as I suspect.
Voila! An actual, meaningful assessment of what the phone bars mean in real numbers from a calibrated instrument.
An uncalibrated receiver, such as the iphone, is not a proper tool to do this.
Unlike FTTH and other technologies, real options exist to day for distributing very high data capacities over local wireless nodes fed from traditional fiber or CATV links, removing the need for expensive wiring to the home and exotic CPE devices. The limitations are far less on wireless devices than traditional links!
The biggest reason, IMO, lean third parties don't move into this space is regulatory.
There is no shortage of bandwidth. New technologies are making it cheaper than you can possibly imagine.
There is a problem getting it to the home. There exist wireless options to distribute with appropriate investment.
The only limitations I am aware of are regulatory, not physical. Even with current technologies based around OFDM/MIMO, we could be offering 1000+mbps wireless to most people with more bandwidth assigned. Gear is cheap.
I have no doubt a reliable ABM system can be developed with the time and resources of the USA. It is just time.
I also have no doubt, like any sane person, that this will upset the balance of power for no good reason or sane benefit.
Attacking the ABM initiative on technical merit is not effective. People are very skilled at developing magic technologies at great expense to kill one another. It will happen. Guaranteed.
What does $0.52/hr mean relative to cost of living? Maybe it's horrific abuse. Maybe it's reasonable. I certainly didn't have much money left after living in those days.
My point is before we all BBQ MS, all the facts are needed.
Seriously, their past decade has been nothing but fail - uninspired me too phones, horrible battery life, and totally missing the smartphone boat through lack of vision despite having the killer device factor (m500. m505) and OS model more than a decade ago.
What executive or consultant realistically thought the Pre was any competition for the iPhone? What market were they trying to target?
Or better yet, where do I get one of those consultancy jobs?
Nobody cares it's not an open platform. It is marketed towards people who just want to accomplish certain things, and it is designed to do those things _very well_.
When an open platform does those things, perhaps we have something to talk about.
For end user, polished applications, the open platform solutions have been total epic fail.
If you want to know a platform inside out, there's a fully documented open-source linux kernel staring there at you in the face.
Go get any of the dozens of embedded arm kits, any of the GREAT bits of documentation, and dig in. You want to get dirty with the hardware? U-boot is right there.
Want to pay with SRAM and gates? A $100 FPGA will get you all you need. Including a VGA out. We made a fully HDL Pong Game; including the VGA DAC out of a $20 part.
Hell, for ALL that matter, go get a Gameboy (any one) for peanuts, a loader cartridge, and hack away!
I'm as much for nostalgia as the next guy, I cut my teeth on a Vic-20 and a C64; I'm an EE because of the experience. I wouldn't go back for a second though. For the price of my first computer you could get yourself a really nice embedded development shop and do some pretty cool stuff.
It's a great time to be interested in this. There will always be good programmers, and there will never be enough of them.
You cold mess about with op-amps and filters and such.. if it was me I'd look at some of the open source audio processing tools or DSP devices. (Any low end DSP device could do this in real time) Get the information related to where your hearing loss is. It would be a straightforward exercise to design a DSP filter to compensate. You'd have to wear a small box on your belt; and likely, to develop yours if you can do everything yourself would probably cost you around $300-400.
Unlike the op-amp solution, you could tune it or recalibrate it if your hearing changes with ease, apply normalization techniques for background noise, etc. It could be a fun project.
As soon as you put 'medical' in the name, the profiteers come running. Insurance is part of it, but not all.
Every racetrack in the world has lapping days where the only additional equipment you need is a helmet and a level head.
There are whole classes of road-legal race cars, and every single one of them is safer on the road than the car you buy off the lot. The difference between race environments and road environments is the former has controlled conditions.
Driver error and skill are still the #1 factors defining safety IMO.
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Mathematics is the language of science. (all science)
If people do not understand math, they are scientifically illiterate.
Applied science (technology) is what enables our free societies to work.
If only a few people know the language of science, then only a few people will control it. This is not a good state of affairs for freedom.
..all the data the Irish sent into the cloud
"lady, I never go into any place I can't get out of"
The cloud is a great idea combined with standard formats for data (XML, whatever). IT overhead is a headache. Running servers is a pain.
The data is the important thing, not how it's manipulated. This point needs to be beaten into people.
If you're foolish enough to move into a third party cloud without standardized data formats.. or a way to get out..
You'll wish being ambushed in a bar by spies was the worst thing that could happen :)
Nobody would ever be clever enough to generate false data.. for an iAlibi? ..or clever enough to hack into and plant incriminating evidence? (not that there's ever been a security breach!)
[quote] ... and we can all live in a communist paradise for ever and ever!
We _could_ live at a sustainable level, if we were (collectively) willing to give up some of our luxuries.
[/quote]
F-ck that noise.
The real solution is managing populations inline with resources; european nations have already collapsed their birthrates. Nobody wants to acknowledge or even discuss this, so hey ho, off to war we go! ... at least our side has all the really good toys
Talking about limiting population growth is politically untouchable because of religion.
Everyone knows what the problem is. Nobody will deal with it.
Nature fixes overpopulation through starvation. We are in equilibrium with the cheap energy.
If the cheap energy ends, ultimately nature will fix things - no problem.
Mother nature is a real bitch when she's angry..
Food supplies can grow given cheap energy. Fertilizer is almost all produced from fossil sources (LNG).
Party ends when cheap oil is over unless Fusion, mass solar, or magic picks up the slack. The first two take a decade to scale. ...I'm hoping for magic.
So, after you get a speeding ticket - You'll be signing up for that auto-ticketing GPS speed tracker then?
Can't endanger others with reckless speeding.
You want to stop DUI? You put people in prison for a year on the first offense, not install nanny-state crap on cars.
This is a good step forward for general security.
How could you trust this 100%? Without the firmware (and some way to verify it), this likely could / does contain backdoors.
For the children, you see.
I don't see a major improvement over well set up truecrypt partitions.
You miss the point. Back then there was no "gear". You just went out on your bike.
DC resistance of your skin is not the only effect here.
The admittance change from your finger adding capacitance and changing the inductive value of the antenna changes the antenna's tuning and ability to effectively radiate. This adds up to the antenna being much less effective.
IANARFEE, but I am a EE who works with RF.
For all of the millions of dollars being lost on productivity aimlessly discussing 'bars'..
Can someone please dissect the antenna and then connect it to a calibrated spectrum analyser? This is so mindbogglingly trivial to do it is beginning to hurt my soul. I do similar exercises at work with new, untested antenna designs. I am sure I am not the only one.
For comparison, do the same to other phones and publish actual measurements of received signal drops and the effect from the disturbance caused from closing your hand around the antenna. This is similar to how touching an old rabbit-ears style antenna effects the picture on a analog TV broadcast, if the effect is as I suspect.
Voila! An actual, meaningful assessment of what the phone bars mean in real numbers from a calibrated instrument.
An uncalibrated receiver, such as the iphone, is not a proper tool to do this.
*grumble* *off my lawn* *grumble*
It's actually worse than you think.
Unlike FTTH and other technologies, real options exist to day for distributing very high data capacities over local wireless nodes fed from traditional fiber or CATV links, removing the need for expensive wiring to the home and exotic CPE devices. The limitations are far less on wireless devices than traditional links!
The biggest reason, IMO, lean third parties don't move into this space is regulatory.
I work for a large WISP/Cable ISP.
There is no shortage of bandwidth. New technologies are making it cheaper than you can possibly imagine.
There is a problem getting it to the home. There exist wireless options to distribute with appropriate investment.
The only limitations I am aware of are regulatory, not physical. Even with current technologies based around OFDM/MIMO, we could be offering 1000+mbps wireless to most people with more bandwidth assigned. Gear is cheap.
I have no doubt a reliable ABM system can be developed with the time and resources of the USA. It is just time.
I also have no doubt, like any sane person, that this will upset the balance of power for no good reason or sane benefit.
Attacking the ABM initiative on technical merit is not effective. People are very skilled at developing magic technologies at great expense to kill one another. It will happen. Guaranteed.
What does $0.52/hr mean relative to cost of living? Maybe it's horrific abuse. Maybe it's reasonable. I certainly didn't have much money left after living in those days.
My point is before we all BBQ MS, all the facts are needed.
When I was programming, 16+ hour days were common.. as was sleeping at a desk.
While I am certainly not proposing abuses of the same magnitude, it would be interesting to see inflation and real dollar adjusted comparisons.
I'm also quite certain Apple et. al are no better.
Seriously, their past decade has been nothing but fail - uninspired me too phones, horrible battery life, and totally missing the smartphone boat through lack of vision despite having the killer device factor (m500. m505) and OS model more than a decade ago.
What executive or consultant realistically thought the Pre was any competition for the iPhone? What market were they trying to target?
Or better yet, where do I get one of those consultancy jobs?
There is absolutely no shortage of trees or other material to make paper or anything else.
Recycling paper is an environmental travesty. It should be used as fuel and new trees planted.
Nobody cares it's not an open platform. It is marketed towards people who just want to accomplish certain things, and it is designed to do those things _very well_.
When an open platform does those things, perhaps we have something to talk about.
For end user, polished applications, the open platform solutions have been total epic fail.
Jesse Schell is wrong.
The iPad will succeed very well for it's targeted market. Here's a hint: it's not you.
If you want to know a platform inside out, there's a fully documented open-source linux kernel staring there at you in the face.
Go get any of the dozens of embedded arm kits, any of the GREAT bits of documentation, and dig in. You want to get dirty with the hardware? U-boot is right there.
Want to pay with SRAM and gates? A $100 FPGA will get you all you need. Including a VGA out. We made a fully HDL Pong Game; including the VGA DAC out of a $20 part.
Hell, for ALL that matter, go get a Gameboy (any one) for peanuts, a loader cartridge, and hack away!
I'm as much for nostalgia as the next guy, I cut my teeth on a Vic-20 and a C64; I'm an EE because of the experience. I wouldn't go back for a second though. For the price of my first computer you could get yourself a really nice embedded development shop and do some pretty cool stuff.
It's a great time to be interested in this. There will always be good programmers, and there will never be enough of them.
You cold mess about with op-amps and filters and such.. if it was me I'd look at some of the open source audio processing tools or DSP devices. (Any low end DSP device could do this in real time) Get the information related to where your hearing loss is. It would be a straightforward exercise to design a DSP filter to compensate. You'd have to wear a small box on your belt; and likely, to develop yours if you can do everything yourself would probably cost you around $300-400.
Unlike the op-amp solution, you could tune it or recalibrate it if your hearing changes with ease, apply normalization techniques for background noise, etc. It could be a fun project.
As soon as you put 'medical' in the name, the profiteers come running. Insurance is part of it, but not all.
Good luck.
If there's user access to clear, I'll be printing up a batch of electronics for a "clear" button in the car.
IIRC there is no legal requirement to perserve the contents of a such a box, and in almost all cases it is a liability.
It's a short step from there to a government locked GPS recorder box in the car..
Every racetrack in the world has lapping days where the only additional equipment you need is a helmet and a level head.
There are whole classes of road-legal race cars, and every single one of them is safer on the road than the car you buy off the lot. The difference between race environments and road environments is the former has controlled conditions.
Driver error and skill are still the #1 factors defining safety IMO.