I signed up for their beta a while back and have 1 or 2 reg numbers to get me started. However, I decided I wasn't that interested in participating in the beta. First person to message me gets the reg numbers....
If you learned a language where you can speak with a tense for "passing on material taken without checking from someone else", why would you ever need to RTFA again?
IANAEE but, here's another article that references vacuum tubes resistance to EMP and it directly speaks of the MIG-25 which I sited in my earlier post.... Also it appears to be written by a Major in the Marine Core in response to requests for information about hardened circuits. It also has a reasonable bibliography at the end should you care to research the primary sources....
Bah, I just link whatever the the highest ranked relevant google indexed page that is returned from my query... If you want me to expend extra effort to provide a link with no advertisment I'd be more than happy to setup a paypal account so that you can pay me for my time....
Yeah I agree, how about that mig 25 that I was talking about was clocked at Mach 3.2 flying over Israel shortly after it was built in the late 60's.... Sounds like some pretty impressive preformance for "inferior" technology....
The best application for vacuum tubes that i've heard of is for the flight control systems in cold war era Russian Mig Fighter jets. Apparently Vaccum tubes are much more resistant to the EMP blast created from a nuclear detonation. Which means in the early stages of WWIII the Russians would still have jets in the air while American fighters would quickly realize that all the millions of dollars worth of high tech computer gadgetry that allows their planes to fly does not operate once a few chips go poof.
Here's a link which mention this.
Apparently the model used in the Mig 21 radar system (the SC33C triode) has garnered quite a following in high end audiphile class A tube amplifiers...
Begware (IMHO) would be differentiated by a pop up or some other obtrusive request for payment. While shareware usually has these requests in the help->about and/or an accompanying README...
That "eclipse" website is crazy, you have to certify that you are a smoker before it will allow you to the main page! I tried just putting in my birthdate to affirm that I am at least 21 years of age, but it wouldn't let me in until I clicked the check box that says "I am a smoker".
RJ Reynolds developed a system similar to this in the late 80's and was shot down by the FDA. It seems that the FDA considered this a drug and drug delivery device and not a cigarette. Which of course means lots and lots and lots of expensive "drug" testing. However there is a japanese company that makes an electrical heating element device for normal cigarettes which supposedly "vaporizes" the nicotine for inhaltion without smoke, I wish I had a link. IIRC there was some mention of this in a PBS special many years back called "the search for a safe cigarette"...
um, i was out in sf this year for the java one converence. i got a week long muni pass for about 12$. i was able to go anywhere in the city very conveniently.
I've not seen pricing for week long passes, but the standard rate for a ride on muni has gone from.35USD to 1.25USD in the last 7 years. Likewise the cost of the Cable car is up to 3.00USD. I'm not saying this is an outrageous cost, but it is definately something that I think would provide a greater benefit than "free" WIFI.
my elementary kids were along for the ride, and they'll never ever forget the loads upon loads of filthy, smelly, trashy people constantly asking if we could spare some change. manhantan was much nicer in this respect than san francisco.
I'm not sure what your point is. But, I can't see how tax dollars paying for WIFI could possibly benefit the homeless, unemployed, underemployed, etc...
local governments should be in the business of providing services that benefit the overall community as a whole. by a local government engaging in police/fire businesses, aren't they competing (or removing the market for) private enterprise?
This must surely be a troll, but I think it has been long accepted that Emergency services provide a benefit to all that may befall an emergency, Ipso Facto EVERYBODY... Emergency services are one of the few services which should IMHO not be privitized or controlled by market forces. When lives are at stake it hardly seems apropriate to contract by bid to a private police or fire department. Likewise, there isn't much of a private industry providing these service which the government would be competing with...
If you look at the world class poker players, you will find that many of them are classical trained in advanced sciences and mathematics. Poker is a game of the odds, especially games with community cards, such as texas hold 'em or Omaha. It's the games like 5 draw where the game really becomes about psychology...
San Francisco's advantage is that it's such a small big city. A population of 776,773 and an area of 47 square miles yields a density of 16,526 persons per square mile. I have no idea how they plan to do this, but if they spent $20,000 per square mile for wireless equipment*, that's less than $1,000,000. Outdoor WAPs can be had for as little as $330 or inexpensive consumer routers can be adapted/ruggedized with tupperware.
So, your point is a good one. The City could build out a wireless infrastructure fairly cheaply, and leave the actual operation to a private contractor.
You are forgetting the biggest portion of the bill will be the bandwidth usage. Maybe you imagine the hardware portion of the infrastructure going in for less than a million. But how much do you think the monthly bandwidth bill is going to be? I work for a Internet Datacenter Colocation facility and can tell you that this is something that would need to be serviced by some seriously fat backbones, probably on the magnitude of several OC48's this would likely cost every month what it would to put a new firetruck in the SFFD fleet or two/three addidtional Police officers' annual salary or provide free parking during business hours for the entire Market st. area.
San Francisco is a fairly expensive place to live, there are not a lot of poor people there. I'm sure they are only concerned with the people who actually have an address- not homeless people, who don't pay taxes, or vote.
This is a ridiculous statement from someone who has obviously not been to San Francisco. SF has some of the largest housing projects in the state. Also, it has rent control laws from the 60's which means that many of the people who live in the number streets south of Golden Gate park are not the upper middle class families that you imagine. This initiative is just a gross mismanagment of public funds. If the city really wanted to do something that benefitted more people they could just remove the tax burden that will be used to fund this mandate which would also have the secondary effect of not putting commercial WIFI busineses out on their collective ass. Maybe SF should spend this money on upgrading their sewage and water facilities, some of which have been in operation since the before the last century, or maybe lowering the cost of the Muni bus and light rail system so that the public transportation becomes an affordable alternative to vehicle ownership, or maybe they could instead use this money to build more free public parking in a city where the monthly cost for a covered spot is over $500 in many areas.
Governments should not be in the business of competing with private enterprise, especially when the arena in which they choose to compete is not directly benefitting all the tax payers which will foot the bill. I'm sure the people who live in Hunter's Point or The Tenderloin would agree that this money would be better spent on Police, Fire, and other critical infrastructure in a city where shootings, fires, etc.. are a regular part of daily life.
This is a vast understatement. I used to run a TEC cooled system with a waterblock cooling the hot side of the TEC. A failure of my water cooling pump cause all the coolant to boil off because of the incredible heat generated by the proccessor combined with the "heat pump of the tec". The proccessor failed and the system shutdown, but the Heat from the tec melted the solder that held the two halves of the cooling block which then dripped all over the back of the video card... The Tec eventually reached somesort of critical temperature and it melted itself and started an electrical fire...
Had this been just a standard aircooled rig with a tech this whole scenario would have happened much much more quickly if a fan were to fail... If this had been a system without a TEC the damage would have ended with a failed proc or more likely just an automatic overheat shutdown....
This doesn't even take into account the other downsides of using a TEC, such as massively increased electrical current draw, mine was 135 watts if I recall correctly and that if the TEC or the TEC's power supply should fail it will act as a insulator preventing the core from shedding heat..
I'm sure the majority of posts on this thread are from people with no experience with this sort of setup, but let me say once again this is far from a quick and simple solution to proc temperatures and would require quite a bit of engineering for a safe mass produced product that didn't have crazy liability issues. Lemme just say that waking up in the middle of the night in a room full of acrid PCB smoke with the only light coming from the blue arc of electricty and the orange flames shooting out of the the case is not a pleasant experience and certainly not one that would reenforce peoples' want to sue such products.
I wrote IP, because that is precisely what I meant. Infospace bought the patents, trademarks, and software assosciated with a product that provides the functionality described.
Ideas aren't created in a vacuum, but then again it is common for two entirely seperated inddividuals to have the same idea. Although, since Privacybank was started in 1997 I'd go out on a limb and say that they had the idea first....
I'd rather see some effort put into enforcing the first sale doctrine, and invalidating EULAs and clickthroughs in court, myself.
Wasn't this recently tested in a federal circuit court that found it was legal to nullify your "first sale" rights in the EULA? I swear slashdot had a headline to that effect sometime in the past 2 weeks.
a contract is based on language, not intent. Any sort of summary would not be sufficient legal protect against exploiting vunerabilities in the language which create loopholes in favor of either agreeing party.
That is the purpose of the "cleanroom EULAs". Even if you get someone to answer yes/no questions about their intent, the language is what you are agreeing to, not the intent....
After looking around a little bit I found a few articles about their product, I'm going to assume that means my NDA has expired...:)
Most of the articles were PR plant type info, but this one is a review of the ewallet technology that was integrated with the Privacy Policy/EULA ranking bit.
http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/resources/product_r eviews/article.php/241021
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It'd be a lot easier to send you if you had an email address....
I signed up for their beta a while back and have 1 or 2 reg numbers to get me started. However, I decided I wasn't that interested in participating in the beta. First person to message me gets the reg numbers....
Doesn't Chocktaw have this feature?
IANAEE but, here's another article that references vacuum tubes resistance to EMP and it directly speaks of the MIG-25 which I sited in my earlier post.... Also it appears to be written by a Major in the Marine Core in response to requests for information about hardened circuits. It also has a reasonable bibliography at the end should you care to research the primary sources....
Bah, I just link whatever the the highest ranked relevant google indexed page that is returned from my query... If you want me to expend extra effort to provide a link with no advertisment I'd be more than happy to setup a paypal account so that you can pay me for my time....
Yeah I agree, how about that mig 25 that I was talking about was clocked at Mach 3.2 flying over Israel shortly after it was built in the late 60's.... Sounds like some pretty impressive preformance for "inferior" technology....
The best application for vacuum tubes that i've heard of is for the flight control systems in cold war era Russian Mig Fighter jets. Apparently Vaccum tubes are much more resistant to the EMP blast created from a nuclear detonation. Which means in the early stages of WWIII the Russians would still have jets in the air while American fighters would quickly realize that all the millions of dollars worth of high tech computer gadgetry that allows their planes to fly does not operate once a few chips go poof.
Here's a link which mention this.
Apparently the model used in the Mig 21 radar system (the SC33C triode) has garnered quite a following in high end audiphile class A tube amplifiers...
Begware (IMHO) would be differentiated by a pop up or some other obtrusive request for payment. While shareware usually has these requests in the help->about and/or an accompanying README...
Interesting, I hadn't thought of that. It sucks that our society is so litigous.... I did my part and voted Libertarian.
That "eclipse" website is crazy, you have to certify that you are a smoker before it will allow you to the main page! I tried just putting in my birthdate to affirm that I am at least 21 years of age, but it wouldn't let me in until I clicked the check box that says "I am a smoker".
RJ Reynolds developed a system similar to this in the late 80's and was shot down by the FDA. It seems that the FDA considered this a drug and drug delivery device and not a cigarette. Which of course means lots and lots and lots of expensive "drug" testing. However there is a japanese company that makes an electrical heating element device for normal cigarettes which supposedly "vaporizes" the nicotine for inhaltion without smoke, I wish I had a link. IIRC there was some mention of this in a PBS special many years back called "the search for a safe cigarette"...
I've not seen pricing for week long passes, but the standard rate for a ride on muni has gone from
I'm not sure what your point is. But, I can't see how tax dollars paying for WIFI could possibly benefit the homeless, unemployed, underemployed, etc...
This must surely be a troll, but I think it has been long accepted that Emergency services provide a benefit to all that may befall an emergency, Ipso Facto EVERYBODY... Emergency services are one of the few services which should IMHO not be privitized or controlled by market forces. When lives are at stake it hardly seems apropriate to contract by bid to a private police or fire department. Likewise, there isn't much of a private industry providing these service which the government would be competing with...
Which takes care of intial infrastructure and some maintainence costs, but who pays the bandwidth bill for as many as 700,000 people?
If you look at the world class poker players, you will find that many of them are classical trained in advanced sciences and mathematics. Poker is a game of the odds, especially games with community cards, such as texas hold 'em or Omaha. It's the games like 5 draw where the game really becomes about psychology...
You are forgetting the biggest portion of the bill will be the bandwidth usage. Maybe you imagine the hardware portion of the infrastructure going in for less than a million. But how much do you think the monthly bandwidth bill is going to be? I work for a Internet Datacenter Colocation facility and can tell you that this is something that would need to be serviced by some seriously fat backbones, probably on the magnitude of several OC48's this would likely cost every month what it would to put a new firetruck in the SFFD fleet or two/three addidtional Police officers' annual salary or provide free parking during business hours for the entire Market st. area.
Governments should not be in the business of competing with private enterprise, especially when the arena in which they choose to compete is not directly benefitting all the tax payers which will foot the bill. I'm sure the people who live in Hunter's Point or The Tenderloin would agree that this money would be better spent on Police, Fire, and other critical infrastructure in a city where shootings, fires, etc.. are a regular part of daily life.
sue==use in the last sentence.
This is a vast understatement. I used to run a TEC cooled system with a waterblock cooling the hot side of the TEC. A failure of my water cooling pump cause all the coolant to boil off because of the incredible heat generated by the proccessor combined with the "heat pump of the tec". The proccessor failed and the system shutdown, but the Heat from the tec melted the solder that held the two halves of the cooling block which then dripped all over the back of the video card... The Tec eventually reached somesort of critical temperature and it melted itself and started an electrical fire...
Had this been just a standard aircooled rig with a tech this whole scenario would have happened much much more quickly if a fan were to fail... If this had been a system without a TEC the damage would have ended with a failed proc or more likely just an automatic overheat shutdown....
This doesn't even take into account the other downsides of using a TEC, such as massively increased electrical current draw, mine was 135 watts if I recall correctly and that if the TEC or the TEC's power supply should fail it will act as a insulator preventing the core from shedding heat..
I'm sure the majority of posts on this thread are from people with no experience with this sort of setup, but let me say once again this is far from a quick and simple solution to proc temperatures and would require quite a bit of engineering for a safe mass produced product that didn't have crazy liability issues. Lemme just say that waking up in the middle of the night in a room full of acrid PCB smoke with the only light coming from the blue arc of electricty and the orange flames shooting out of the the case is not a pleasant experience and certainly not one that would reenforce peoples' want to sue such products.
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I wrote IP, because that is precisely what I meant. Infospace bought the patents, trademarks, and software assosciated with a product that provides the functionality described.
Ideas aren't created in a vacuum, but then again it is common for two entirely seperated inddividuals to have the same idea. Although, since Privacybank was started in 1997 I'd go out on a limb and say that they had the idea first....
I'd rather see some effort put into enforcing the first sale doctrine, and invalidating EULAs and clickthroughs in court, myself. Wasn't this recently tested in a federal circuit court that found it was legal to nullify your "first sale" rights in the EULA? I swear slashdot had a headline to that effect sometime in the past 2 weeks.
a contract is based on language, not intent. Any sort of summary would not be sufficient legal protect against exploiting vunerabilities in the language which create loopholes in favor of either agreeing party.
That is the purpose of the "cleanroom EULAs". Even if you get someone to answer yes/no questions about their intent, the language is what you are agreeing to, not the intent....
After looking around a little bit I found a few articles about their product, I'm going to assume that means my NDA has expired... :)
Most of the articles were PR plant type info, but this one is a review of the ewallet technology that was integrated with the Privacy Policy/EULA ranking bit.
http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/resources/product_r eviews/article.php/241021