She shouldn't have been subjected to it those rays anyway. If she asks for a pat down that's what she should have gotten. Although at 16 she should have enough gumption to stand up to a TSA agent anyway, especially with a doctor's note -- who's ALSO an authority figure.
Besides the situation-specific danger, any rays strong enough to scan are enough to increase cancer risk. The fact they direct enough energy to disrupt an electromechanical device should be proof of their inherent danger anyway. It's my understanding the quantum energy of that radiation is related to the frequency-- and terahertz radition is pretty high up there on the reactivity scale.
If you have eight channels... it sounds like at least a semi-serious setup. But if you are using Cobra net, you'll definitely be putting time into troubleshooting and maintaining that kind of a beast. Why not just buy some good new fashioned Airport Express devices to stick into each room, and broadcast the audio through there, maintaining it through iTunes? It would save the value of your time... which you could then for other stuff.
The eMac line uses G4 chips (not Intel) and was discontinued in 2006. Mac speed 700mhz. Probably not much RAM. They were very nice machines in their day. That day has passed. Now much software requires Intel, and they can't run the latest version of the Mac OS (Lion). So yeah, it's time for new hardware.
From there, you could argue how cutting edge the new stuff should be. But if they are buying on a 6+ plus replacement cycle, it's best to at least buy at today's hockey-stick price point where you get maximum power CPUs at the best bang-for-the-buck -- i.e. just a bit short of the overpriced bleeding edge chips.
Sounds like Microsoft Windows. A half-working, half-broken confection apparently designed to do nothing more than generate endless eons of work for consultants whose primary job it is to sell the half-working part and fix the half-broken part.
And no, I'm not troll-baiting. I half-respect Microsoft, like everyone else on here.
The "fact" that CO2 is not a pollutant is actually at best an opinion, at worst a scientific falsehood.
Our bodies expel it precisely because it is a waste product. Whether by a mechanical process of a factory, or a biological process of an organism, aren't waste products the very essence of "pollution?" Sure, the plants don't seem to mind it. Every single, solitary air-breathing member of the animal kingdom, however, does.
I suspect it's not "evolution" at all, but subtly bad science (i.e. a scientist gunning for more grant money). DNA can express in many ways given varying environmental conditions, without the mutations that characterize true evolution -- and artificially forcing genetic drift by selecting for the bottom-clumpers is certainly VERY DIFFERENT from having gravity serve as the "selection pressure."
It's well known DNA can express in many different ways without true evolution. We've come a long way from the theory of Lamarckian evolutionary theory (evolution of acquired characteristics). One is example: exons, which can express differently across generations based on environmental conditions-- without actual change to the DNA.
I'm thinking this great discovery will get pounded upon by other biologists pretty quickly -- and put in its proper place as an interesting science experiment that really does not advance the field much if at all. INTERESTING evolution would be a group of mutations that lead to a multicellular outcome. That's NOT what these guys 1) demonstrated happened (multicellular DNA base-pair-causing mutations) or 2) proved was the actual genetic cause at the molecular-biology level.
You could always start your own company. Use that opportunity to learn hot skills. Like mobile platform programming such as iOS and Android. Start as a consultant so you can keep your day job.
Advantages
1. you keep an income as you develop your career 2. you create your own management position 3. you develop advanced, in-demand skill sets that are only getter hotter 4. if your day job disappears, you can build your moonlighting career 5. if your moonlighting career fails, you have the skills to seek another job
I work in my bedroom. Besides code, the only thing I would be rendering is children and my wife has informed me you can see 0% of our render farm as well. Could I still get a t-shirt?
What, did you just get the first-post add-on for Opera?
[back on topic]
This mechanical battery solution is interesting but the main problem is that it becomes VERY HARD to take your batteries out again without a ribbon or some physical eject mechanism. The big advantage of the current battery holders is that the spring on the negative terminal end gives you just enough "give" to pop the battery back out. Of course this morning I filed a provisional patent to fix this battery removal issue. And it's a purely digital solution.
If you spend millions on an MRI machine, you should be able to ask the manufacturer to produce more reasonable software that splits those 80GB files into a number of smaller ones that most filesystems can manage.
But why are you trying to roll your own solution anyway with such a proprietary system anyway?
Probably because it would be almost impossible to assure a complete uniform freeze -- you have all kinds of complicated temperature and phase transitions between the underlying bowl material, the ferromagnetic fluid and the reflective film/fluid. The stuff would inevitably crystallize and distort in patches, creating a mess of a surface.
It sold for less last year because of Microsoft contractually restricting the CPU power and specs of WinXP netbooks. Cause Microsoft does not like netbooks. Because they are supposed to be cheap. And Microsoft don't do cheap.
Now as for power issues in Linux: please RTFUPMDFAOTWAKSAM ("Read the f-ing Ubuntu power management documentation found all over the web and kindly stop annoying me")
This "peace plan" is not going to work. The two main points remain -- Flash IS unstable enough with frequent memory/CPU blowups that Apple DOES have a valid case about mobile suitability, and Apple also wants to OWN and CONTROL the market Flash addresses.
With Adobe repeatedly proving over the long term that it cannot seem to solve the stability issues, the only real solution to stable Flash on iPhone is AT&T building its network out well enough to view real-time Flash rendered from some remote virtual machine, using the network itself to exchange user input and Flash output.
It was a world where almost every kid grew up learning at least a little BASIC, because virtually all computers booted right into the BASIC command line. Which skill-wise puts the early 80s generation ahead of every generation before or after, young whippersnapper.
>>"I also put the 1983 storage and speeds in 2009 terms, for the benefit of the youngin's out there." We would thank you, but we're too busy getting off your lawn.
Considering the Atari 1200 was powered by the 6502 microprocessor, the assembly code of which drove the original Terminator, that would be an entirely wise idea.
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She shouldn't have been subjected to it those rays anyway. If she asks for a pat down that's what she should have gotten. Although at 16 she should have enough gumption to stand up to a TSA agent anyway, especially with a doctor's note -- who's ALSO an authority figure.
Besides the situation-specific danger, any rays strong enough to scan are enough to increase cancer risk. The fact they direct enough energy to disrupt an electromechanical device should be proof of their inherent danger anyway. It's my understanding the quantum energy of that radiation is related to the frequency-- and terahertz radition is pretty high up there on the reactivity scale.
If you have eight channels... it sounds like at least a semi-serious setup. But if you are using Cobra net, you'll definitely be putting time into troubleshooting and maintaining that kind of a beast. Why not just buy some good new fashioned Airport Express devices to stick into each room, and broadcast the audio through there, maintaining it through iTunes? It would save the value of your time... which you could then for other stuff.
Otherwise, get a Linux box, and stick some PulseAudio on there -- http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio
But you'll have to tinker more, which it sounds like you kinda want to do.
The eMac line uses G4 chips (not Intel) and was discontinued in 2006. Mac speed 700mhz. Probably not much RAM. They were very nice machines in their day. That day has passed. Now much software requires Intel, and they can't run the latest version of the Mac OS (Lion). So yeah, it's time for new hardware.
From there, you could argue how cutting edge the new stuff should be. But if they are buying on a 6+ plus replacement cycle, it's best to at least buy at today's hockey-stick price point where you get maximum power CPUs at the best bang-for-the-buck -- i.e. just a bit short of the overpriced bleeding edge chips.
Sounds like Microsoft Windows. A half-working, half-broken confection apparently designed to do nothing more than generate endless eons of work for consultants whose primary job it is to sell the half-working part and fix the half-broken part.
And no, I'm not troll-baiting. I half-respect Microsoft, like everyone else on here.
The secret command shows up as a dot (".") on my system.
This may not be enlightening to anyone, but it appears to be a small black hole.
The "fact" that CO2 is not a pollutant is actually at best an opinion, at worst a scientific falsehood.
Our bodies expel it precisely because it is a waste product. Whether by a mechanical process of a factory, or a biological process of an organism, aren't waste products the very essence of "pollution?" Sure, the plants don't seem to mind it. Every single, solitary air-breathing member of the animal kingdom, however, does.
I suspect it's not "evolution" at all, but subtly bad science (i.e. a scientist gunning for more grant money). DNA can express in many ways given varying environmental conditions, without the mutations that characterize true evolution -- and artificially forcing genetic drift by selecting for the bottom-clumpers is certainly VERY DIFFERENT from having gravity serve as the "selection pressure."
It's well known DNA can express in many different ways without true evolution. We've come a long way from the theory of Lamarckian evolutionary theory (evolution of acquired characteristics). One is example: exons, which can express differently across generations based on environmental conditions-- without actual change to the DNA.
I'm thinking this great discovery will get pounded upon by other biologists pretty quickly -- and put in its proper place as an interesting science experiment that really does not advance the field much if at all. INTERESTING evolution would be a group of mutations that lead to a multicellular outcome. That's NOT what these guys 1) demonstrated happened (multicellular DNA base-pair-causing mutations) or 2) proved was the actual genetic cause at the molecular-biology level.
You could always start your own company. Use that opportunity to learn hot skills. Like mobile platform programming such as iOS and Android. Start as a consultant so you can keep your day job.
Advantages
1. you keep an income as you develop your career
2. you create your own management position
3. you develop advanced, in-demand skill sets that are only getter hotter
4. if your day job disappears, you can build your moonlighting career
5. if your moonlighting career fails, you have the skills to seek another job
Disadvantages:
1. You gotta be brave and disciplined.
I work in my bedroom. Besides code, the only thing I would be rendering is children and my wife has informed me you can see 0% of our render farm as well. Could I still get a t-shirt?
Clearly they did not count John Travolta's acting in Battlefield Earth as "least plausible."
What, did you just get the first-post add-on for Opera?
[back on topic]
This mechanical battery solution is interesting but the main problem is that it becomes VERY HARD to take your batteries out again without a ribbon or some physical eject mechanism. The big advantage of the current battery holders is that the spring on the negative terminal end gives you just enough "give" to pop the battery back out. Of course this morning I filed a provisional patent to fix this battery removal issue. And it's a purely digital solution.
If you spend millions on an MRI machine, you should be able to ask the manufacturer to produce more reasonable software that splits those 80GB files into a number of smaller ones that most filesystems can manage.
But why are you trying to roll your own solution anyway with such a proprietary system anyway?
Probably because it would be almost impossible to assure a complete uniform freeze -- you have all kinds of complicated temperature and phase transitions between the underlying bowl material, the ferromagnetic fluid and the reflective film/fluid. The stuff would inevitably crystallize and distort in patches, creating a mess of a surface.
It sold for less last year because of Microsoft contractually restricting the CPU power and specs of WinXP netbooks. Cause Microsoft does not like netbooks. Because they are supposed to be cheap. And Microsoft don't do cheap.
Now as for power issues in Linux: please RTFUPMDFAOTWAKSAM ("Read the f-ing Ubuntu power management documentation found all over the web and kindly stop annoying me")
Maybe MSFT is still sore about the 3rd NSA key http://bit.ly/avkiLe
Thank goodness we can still trust Apple because they make a lot of their computers in China.
It is none of the above. It is a sneaky coordinated attack on an innocent cat-lover's web site, probably instigated by a vicious cabal of dog people.
I'm not a lacist. I have a bad risp.
Remember, you can always fight back in creative ways. I've heard chicken flied lice tastes good.
This "peace plan" is not going to work. The two main points remain -- Flash IS unstable enough with frequent memory/CPU blowups that Apple DOES have a valid case about mobile suitability, and Apple also wants to OWN and CONTROL the market Flash addresses.
With Adobe repeatedly proving over the long term that it cannot seem to solve the stability issues, the only real solution to stable Flash on iPhone is AT&T building its network out well enough to view real-time Flash rendered from some remote virtual machine, using the network itself to exchange user input and Flash output.
It shouldn't. Monoliths give the same readings.
Soon they will patent greed.
Oh, it's accurate. Especially when you leave Fido in the car as you visit your other significant other.
Just use a series of tubes. It's really the easiest approach.
It was a world where almost every kid grew up learning at least a little BASIC, because virtually all computers booted right into the BASIC command line. Which skill-wise puts the early 80s generation ahead of every generation before or after, young whippersnapper.
>>"I also put the 1983 storage and speeds in 2009 terms, for the benefit of the youngin's out there." We would thank you, but we're too busy getting off your lawn.
Considering the Atari 1200 was powered by the 6502 microprocessor, the assembly code of which drove the original Terminator, that would be an entirely wise idea.