That's interesting because a good amateur cyclist can easily put out 200 watts for a sustained period of time. Does that mean they become a motorcycle when putting out >200 watts but can slack off and be a bicycle again?
this is an idea we considered but in order to be able to life a reasonable payload the blimp actually has to be bigger than the opening in the building.
This year any team to complete the whole mission would have taken home $40,000 US. Since no team achieved all the objectives the pot will grow by $10,000 for next year.
Its really quite simple. RFID tags have a unique ID so in situtations like this they could be programmed only to respond when that ID is queried. It shouldn't make them too much more expensive and a computer can run through all the possible IDs pretty quickly.
Of course if you wanted to find them all there could still be particular IDs that cause all the chips to respond.
Does anyone know when Transmeta will have more info about the Astro? It made a splash and seems to have just gone away. I can't even find mention of it on their website.
Seems like it could compete with the Pentium-M if/when it comes out.
Its small enough that I can just clip it to my waistband and have at least 2 hours of music to run / ski / cycle with without even knowing its there most of the time. I have the 128mb version and I could add a 128mb SM card for 256megs total. So thats roughly 4 hours of 128kb mp3s. Most of the time I have no desire at all for anything more.
That being said if there was an hd unit I could plug in when I'm on trips I'd probably buy it. I'm not so concerned about the form factor then and it'd be nice to have more of my collection with me. Especially if it allowed me to transfer files to the internal memory and SD card so I only have to carry the smaller nomad when at my destination.
If the system is chaotic, as weather is, the most minute differences in our actions will have totally different results. In a simulation of a chaotic waterwheel I ran changing the flow rate from 0.01 to 0.010001 had a dramatic effect after very few iterations. We simply cannot predict the effect of an action on weather with any sort of reliability.
Weather is actually a chaotic system as Edward Lorenz discoverd in the 1960s. Small changes to the inital conditions of the system very quickly result in massive differences in behavior. An often (perhaps over) cited analogy is the butterfly effect in which the flapping of a single butterfly's wings in Japan causes a storm in Alaska.
What this means is that the ramifications will never be known. We cannot measure the weather precisely enough to make meaningful long term predictions nor can we control our actions precisely enough such that their effects can be known.
Will you be able to buy boxes that output 1080i analog only. I don't have a DVI port on my HDTV so that would be an acceptable solution for me and many other early adopters.
I remember reading about a radio transmitter system that was capable of confusing shells and causing them to blow up in mid air. I know it was deployed to protect hospitals in Bosnia. From what I remember it was a small, portable, and reliable system that could cover a large area.
What real advantage does this system have over this already existing one.
I saw it last week at an anime showing and was very impressed with the movie. Even the non anime people I brought with me to see it were glad that they came.
Would be nice in Canada especially if they manage to raise the levy on non-removable media like they want to. At the rates that were being bandied about it could mean that this device is ~$50 cheaper when the hd and player are sold separately.
If I remember correctly similar things were true of Edison in that inventions made by those in his lab were patented under his name.
Maybe they could have used some IP Lawyers back then:P
Nuclear weapons are only one way to generate an EMP blast. Conventional explosives and even capacitor banks can also be used, albeit a less powerful signal but still an EMP.
Furthermore the weapon that would be used with the intent of generating an EMP would probably not be much more than 1kt. Locally the effects would be disasterous but the world kept going after an 11kt and 21kt bomb in 1945. In fact with modern building standards and the fact that the bomb would be detonated in the atmosphere it is possible that the physical damage on the ground would be quite slight.
That being said its still a nuke and hopefully they are never used again but I suspect that if they were the result of that one bomb would be less dire than you would have us believe.
Even if this guy is right it doesn't mean we can continue to be abusive of our environment. Global Warming is just one concern we face. The link between human activity and a general degredation of the environment is quite clear. Couple that with our dependance on our environment and it is painfully evident that we can no longer afford to treat our environment with disrespect.
Even when it comes to global warming, to assume that CO2 and greenhouse gasses in general don't have an effect is to ignore a large body of scientific evidence. (Note scientific meaning arrived at by the scientific method)
This reminds me of a classmate that did a project on the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. Their source, dhmo.org, was another well known internet spoof.
Apparantly my High School is adding wifi coverage next year becuase there are a lot of places in the school that haven't been wired up as the number of computers grows. Its reached the point where its impossible / majorly expensive to wire them so they are putting in a wifi network to cover them.
While I trust some security will be used. (perhaps foolish trust, these are the people that didn't close port 80 when nimda came and flooded the network) I'm pretty sure a non trivial number of people could own that network in a hurry. We are talking somewhat sensitive data too like grades and inter-teacher corespondence.
My question is what exactly can be done to ensure that wireless networks are secure? They will never be 100% but can they be made good enough for reasonably sensitive data?
Assuming that the emails really were deleted and all the backups were also cleared out, what is to stop them from recovering the data using their forensic data recovery techniques. Comerical teams are amazing at this and I would have to assume the FBI is at least as good. How lost is this data really?
Up here in Canada Sympatico is doing the same thing. Unfortunetly for me my monthly bill is going to go from $30 CDN to $45 CDN and I will be capped at 5GB of upload and 5GB of download a month. Currently I use about doulbe that. They have a 10GB/10GB service but its $70/month. (although it is 3Mbit/640Kbit *drool*).
The price is enough to make me look at other options like dsl.ca that is still offering 1Mbit service for a flat rate of $35 although who knows how long it will last.
I don't disagree that flat rate pricing causes the majority to subsidize the few but I think that 5GB is far to little. I can use that in a month easily and I don't even do any P2P.
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That's interesting because a good amateur cyclist can easily put out 200 watts for a sustained period of time. Does that mean they become a motorcycle when putting out >200 watts but can slack off and be a bicycle again?
this is an idea we considered but in order to be able to life a reasonable payload the blimp actually has to be bigger than the opening in the building.
This year any team to complete the whole mission would have taken home $40,000 US. Since no team achieved all the objectives the pot will grow by $10,000 for next year.
Its really quite simple. RFID tags have a unique ID so in situtations like this they could be programmed only to respond when that ID is queried. It shouldn't make them too much more expensive and a computer can run through all the possible IDs pretty quickly.
Of course if you wanted to find them all there could still be particular IDs that cause all the chips to respond.
Definetly makes sense in the case of a library.
SANS InfoSec Reading Room.
Seems like it could compete with the Pentium-M if/when it comes out.
that there were ricer dinosaurs?
That being said if there was an hd unit I could plug in when I'm on trips I'd probably buy it. I'm not so concerned about the form factor then and it'd be nice to have more of my collection with me. Especially if it allowed me to transfer files to the internal memory and SD card so I only have to carry the smaller nomad when at my destination.
If the system is chaotic, as weather is, the most minute differences in our actions will have totally different results. In a simulation of a chaotic waterwheel I ran changing the flow rate from 0.01 to 0.010001 had a dramatic effect after very few iterations. We simply cannot predict the effect of an action on weather with any sort of reliability.
What this means is that the ramifications will never be known. We cannot measure the weather precisely enough to make meaningful long term predictions nor can we control our actions precisely enough such that their effects can be known.
See this or this for more information on chaos.
Will you be able to buy boxes that output 1080i analog only. I don't have a DVI port on my HDTV so that would be an acceptable solution for me and many other early adopters.
Why exactly is this in developers?
Please don't tell me this is considered an early beta of rock or something.
no one else is reporting that AOL-TW and Microsoft are going to merge.
I remember reading about a radio transmitter system that was capable of confusing shells and causing them to blow up in mid air. I know it was deployed to protect hospitals in Bosnia. From what I remember it was a small, portable, and reliable system that could cover a large area. What real advantage does this system have over this already existing one.
If you go nuts and you play games you had something else wrong with you in the first place
I saw it last week at an anime showing and was very impressed with the movie. Even the non anime people I brought with me to see it were glad that they came.
....but that big?
Would be nice in Canada especially if they manage to raise the levy on non-removable media like they want to. At the rates that were being bandied about it could mean that this device is ~$50 cheaper when the hd and player are sold separately.
If I remember correctly similar things were true of Edison in that inventions made by those in his lab were patented under his name. Maybe they could have used some IP Lawyers back then :P
Furthermore the weapon that would be used with the intent of generating an EMP would probably not be much more than 1kt. Locally the effects would be disasterous but the world kept going after an 11kt and 21kt bomb in 1945. In fact with modern building standards and the fact that the bomb would be detonated in the atmosphere it is possible that the physical damage on the ground would be quite slight.
That being said its still a nuke and hopefully they are never used again but I suspect that if they were the result of that one bomb would be less dire than you would have us believe.
Even when it comes to global warming, to assume that CO2 and greenhouse gasses in general don't have an effect is to ignore a large body of scientific evidence. (Note scientific meaning arrived at by the scientific method)
This reminds me of a classmate that did a project on the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. Their source, dhmo.org, was another well known internet spoof.
While I trust some security will be used. (perhaps foolish trust, these are the people that didn't close port 80 when nimda came and flooded the network) I'm pretty sure a non trivial number of people could own that network in a hurry. We are talking somewhat sensitive data too like grades and inter-teacher corespondence.
My question is what exactly can be done to ensure that wireless networks are secure? They will never be 100% but can they be made good enough for reasonably sensitive data?
Assuming that the emails really were deleted and all the backups were also cleared out, what is to stop them from recovering the data using their forensic data recovery techniques. Comerical teams are amazing at this and I would have to assume the FBI is at least as good. How lost is this data really?
The price is enough to make me look at other options like dsl.ca that is still offering 1Mbit service for a flat rate of $35 although who knows how long it will last.
I don't disagree that flat rate pricing causes the majority to subsidize the few but I think that 5GB is far to little. I can use that in a month easily and I don't even do any P2P.