I think the difference is the mechanic expects to be payed and says so, while the nerd does not and prefers to sulk about it. The mechanic knows that his skills have value and has the conviction to make others recognize that, the nerd does not have the confidence for that.
When friends and family members of "mechanics" are gifted with free service they know it and are required to show difference, appreciation, and some form of reciprocation. But it's a subtle negotiation, you have to be willing to need their skills and recognize they have value too.
I kinda fell into that last catagory. I'd been wanting to use linux on a desktop since slackware 3.5 (really). My problems were I like wizbang hardware in my desktop,I want ALL of it to work, I get to spend very little time outside of windows or cisco stuff at work, and I have only a few hours a week to just devote to fixing something I broke. Every system I've built for myself for the last 10 years or so has had a decent videocard, and (until this last build) a pricey sound card. But until fairly recent distros (say the last year an a half), the time investment to get a working desktop (or the lack of hardware support) far outweighed the advantages of Linux.
Nowadays, I DO have a powerful, daily use, linux desktop system and I'm about to redistro my older Opteron GF6800 system. I may even try again on my notebook. Because Linux now usually works on initial install well enough to use on a day to day basis, I have had the ability and the opportunity to learn more about the OS as a desktop.
TFA says it takes 8 of them to get past the magic 100kW number desired by the military. They're controlled to fire at the same spot. My speculation was that you could mount each on a light vehicle like an automated machine gun turret. Flip a switch and they all target the same marking laser. You wouldn't be limited to 100kW, a destroyer could have 80 of these chained together for a megawatt of slicing and dicing goodness.
7.62NATO (used in the old Phalanx Anti Missle System's miniguns) delivers about 400 joules at 500m. This laser needs about 27ms of on point contact to do that. Of course I'm assuming that the laser isn't affected much by water vapor in the air. And that heat is as effective as kinetic energy.
75kW Generators (TFA says it's 20% efficient) are basicly small trailer/pick-up bed sized. But that includes a 4L Diesel engine and a fuel tank. Share the vehicles motor and add some energy storage like a bank of capacitors so you can move and fire. Put a big radiator on the roof for cooling 600 Prescotts:) and you're good to go. I think you could shoehorn it into a Hummer sized vehicle.
Really, it sounds like a replacement for something like the Phalanx or semi-fixed medium to heavy machineguns. It has the bonus of being really accurate, so set up however many automated turrets you want and slave them to a targeting or master laser.
I remember something like that back in the '80s in the UC Theater (Berkeley). A live redub of an old Cisco the Kid movie and some Sci Fi serial, followed by Cheech and Chong. Of course Cisco and Pancho were gay and Pancho complained about his ass hurting in all the chase scenes. That and the contact high made it pretty funny.
I drive with my phone plugged into a hands-free docking station or just a charger when in a rental. This app would encourage me to keep my phone topped off.
On the other hand, battery drain would discourage its use on foot, bike, the bus or train. Too bad as it would be nice to time my arrival at a stop in sync with the approach of mass transit.
If a manufacturer of a product doesn't want their trademark associated with a another commercial work, they lawyer up. If it's got a common pseudonym, say "The Goat" for a GTO or M-16 instead of ArmaLite AR-15 you go with that.
I don't have any idea why they'd choose "chinese assault rifle" instead of SKS or any Soviet block weapon as the names we use for them are all anglicized pseudonyms.
Here, intentional, free WiFi is generally a value added thing to get you use a business' services.
Starbucks is the only coffee chain that made you pay locally AFAIK. Caribou, Panera, DunkinDonuts and all the smaller/independents offer "free" WiFi. Hotels generally offer WiFi on the ground floor. Sometimes it'll reach out to the pool.
Bars almost always seem to have an open AP. Restaurants that cater to business lunchers are a pretty safe bet. If you get desperate there's always McDonald's.
Even my local mall's foodcourt has free WiFi and they advertise it on the LED sign out front.
However you will rarely find one in a place that specializes in sausage gravy as a preferred topping for a meal.
Never found one in a park though. I should get a hotdog cart or a Lunch Truck and set up an AP.
From my place on the 25th floor, using a wrt54gl with stock hardware, I can survey about 2-3 floors up and down, plus APs in 3 hotels, some offices about a KM away and occasionally a WanderingWifi AP at an Arby's about 4KM away (direct LOS). From the pool or the top of the parking garage, I get the facing side of the whole 32 story building.
I'd imagine a more formal survey would employ a directional/dish antenna so all the Linksys/Belkin/Netgear SSIDs on channel 6 wouldn't obscure each other.
Facial Biometric programs usually try measure a bunch of things in comparison to the size of your face like the proportional length of your nose, the proportional distance from the tip of your nose to the corners of your mouth, etc...
There are composition rules you have to go by to get it to work. Like looking straight into the camera and presenting a large enough amount of detail to be scanned.
Of course there are other things that could be measured, like complexion or eye color, or your bottom row of teeth... or a retinal scan.
I think using this with phones that could make a retina print would be a pretty cool option. I don't know what resolution CCD you'd need for it but it wouldn't really be hard to do.
ATTFA the whole thing is based on a visual biometric program that "recognises" (ie generates the same partial key) people even when there are minor changes to their appearance. So if I take your picture and you take your picture (or a third party takes your picture) that part of the key formula is the same. If a third party takes both of our pictures within the right parameters (probably a close up full face shot or perhaps using our Drivers Licence, passport, or mugshot photo), they should have the same full key generated.
The "better security" part just seems to be based on the idea that it is difficult to crack a long key and that during a later (non-face-to-face) transfer of data a random data thief wouldn't be able to get both photos.
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What RFC# is that? Please tell me SOMEONE wrote it up.
I think the difference is the mechanic expects to be payed and says so, while the nerd does not and prefers to sulk about it. The mechanic knows that his skills have value and has the conviction to make others recognize that, the nerd does not have the confidence for that.
When friends and family members of "mechanics" are gifted with free service they know it and are required to show difference, appreciation, and some form of reciprocation. But it's a subtle negotiation, you have to be willing to need their skills and recognize they have value too.
I think the difference is the mechanic expects to be payed and says so, while the nerd does not and prefers to sulk about it.
I kinda fell into that last catagory. I'd been wanting to use linux on a desktop since slackware 3.5 (really). My problems were I like wizbang hardware in my desktop,I want ALL of it to work, I get to spend very little time outside of windows or cisco stuff at work, and I have only a few hours a week to just devote to fixing something I broke. Every system I've built for myself for the last 10 years or so has had a decent videocard, and (until this last build) a pricey sound card. But until fairly recent distros (say the last year an a half), the time investment to get a working desktop (or the lack of hardware support) far outweighed the advantages of Linux.
Nowadays, I DO have a powerful, daily use, linux desktop system and I'm about to redistro my older Opteron GF6800 system. I may even try again on my notebook. Because Linux now usually works on initial install well enough to use on a day to day basis, I have had the ability and the opportunity to learn more about the OS as a desktop.
TFA says it takes 8 of them to get past the magic 100kW number desired by the military. They're controlled to fire at the same spot. My speculation was that you could mount each on a light vehicle like an automated machine gun turret. Flip a switch and they all target the same marking laser. You wouldn't be limited to 100kW, a destroyer could have 80 of these chained together for a megawatt of slicing and dicing goodness.
Doh! you're right!
Mine.
7.62NATO (used in the old Phalanx Anti Missle System's miniguns) delivers about 400 joules at 500m. This laser needs about 27ms of on point contact to do that. Of course I'm assuming that the laser isn't affected much by water vapor in the air. And that heat is as effective as kinetic energy.
75kW Generators (TFA says it's 20% efficient) are basicly small trailer/pick-up bed sized. But that includes a 4L Diesel engine and a fuel tank. Share the vehicles motor and add some energy storage like a bank of capacitors so you can move and fire. Put a big radiator on the roof for cooling 600 Prescotts :) and you're good to go. I think you could shoehorn it into a Hummer sized vehicle.
Really, it sounds like a replacement for something like the Phalanx or semi-fixed medium to heavy machineguns. It has the bonus of being really accurate, so set up however many automated turrets you want and slave them to a targeting or master laser.
I remember something like that back in the '80s in the UC Theater (Berkeley). A live redub of an old Cisco the Kid movie and some Sci Fi serial, followed by Cheech and Chong. Of course Cisco and Pancho were gay and Pancho complained about his ass hurting in all the chase scenes. That and the contact high made it pretty funny.
If by the same you mean much slower and not significant as a gaming pc, then sure.
The 9600M GT is a pretty craptastic videocard for a $2500+ notebook.
There's no hybrid SLI on the MBP.
I drive with my phone plugged into a hands-free docking station or just a charger when in a rental. This app would encourage me to keep my phone topped off.
On the other hand, battery drain would discourage its use on foot, bike, the bus or train. Too bad as it would be nice to time my arrival at a stop in sync with the approach of mass transit.
Shine a clip of that scene out the window as you pass through a cloud layer. Bonus points if Bill is on the plane.
I think the GRiD got gas plasma screens around '85-'86.
In his summary over at Lost Circuits, MS notes that there is practically no System Memory bottleneck on the i7 platform with their gaming benchmarks.
http://www.lostcircuits.com/mambo//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=1&limit=1&limitstart=16
Here's a lower resolution benchmark. Scaling looks pretty good.
http://www.lostcircuits.com/mambo//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=1&limit=1&limitstart=15
If a manufacturer of a product doesn't want their trademark associated with a another commercial work, they lawyer up. If it's got a common pseudonym, say "The Goat" for a GTO or M-16 instead of ArmaLite AR-15 you go with that.
I don't have any idea why they'd choose "chinese assault rifle" instead of SKS or any Soviet block weapon as the names we use for them are all anglicized pseudonyms.
I haven't got the game yet, does the reload animation charge the fixed magazine with a stripper clip?
Here in the US it's sold in gallon jugs one isle over from potato chips in the supermarket.
I prefer anthropic to coincedence. Though it could be both.
Here, intentional, free WiFi is generally a value added thing to get you use a business' services.
Starbucks is the only coffee chain that made you pay locally AFAIK. Caribou, Panera, DunkinDonuts and all the smaller/independents offer "free" WiFi. Hotels generally offer WiFi on the ground floor. Sometimes it'll reach out to the pool.
Bars almost always seem to have an open AP. Restaurants that cater to business lunchers are a pretty safe bet. If you get desperate there's always McDonald's.
Even my local mall's foodcourt has free WiFi and they advertise it on the LED sign out front.
However you will rarely find one in a place that specializes in sausage gravy as a preferred topping for a meal.
Never found one in a park though. I should get a hotdog cart or a Lunch Truck and set up an AP.
From my place on the 25th floor, using a wrt54gl with stock hardware, I can survey about 2-3 floors up and down, plus APs in 3 hotels, some offices about a KM away and occasionally a WanderingWifi AP at an Arby's about 4KM away (direct LOS). From the pool or the top of the parking garage, I get the facing side of the whole 32 story building.
I'd imagine a more formal survey would employ a directional/dish antenna so all the Linksys/Belkin/Netgear SSIDs on channel 6 wouldn't obscure each other.
Same hair, just growing in the wrong direction.
I prefer Chode with 6 of 9.
Facial Biometric programs usually try measure a bunch of things in comparison to the size of your face like the proportional length of your nose, the proportional distance from the tip of your nose to the corners of your mouth, etc...
There are composition rules you have to go by to get it to work. Like looking straight into the camera and presenting a large enough amount of detail to be scanned.
Of course there are other things that could be measured, like complexion or eye color, or your bottom row of teeth... or a retinal scan.
I think using this with phones that could make a retina print would be a pretty cool option. I don't know what resolution CCD you'd need for it but it wouldn't really be hard to do.
ATTFA the whole thing is based on a visual biometric program that "recognises" (ie generates the same partial key) people even when there are minor changes to their appearance. So if I take your picture and you take your picture (or a third party takes your picture) that part of the key formula is the same. If a third party takes both of our pictures within the right parameters (probably a close up full face shot or perhaps using our Drivers Licence, passport, or mugshot photo), they should have the same full key generated.
The "better security" part just seems to be based on the idea that it is difficult to crack a long key and that during a later (non-face-to-face) transfer of data a random data thief wouldn't be able to get both photos.