Seems like these two are fixated on an idea that the robot car will cause some compulsory communal vehicle to be needed... an agenda that would have nothing to do with cars being driven by computers.
Well "wood gas" is the product of heated wood typicaly piped directly to the engine. The wood merely stores the fuel (methane) in a stable medium. You might consider the methane product the actual fuel, but the "tank" is filled with wood.
An AC posted this first but wood gas was (widely during WW2) and still is easily substituted for gasoline (with a severe loss of HP). It's a good part of any zombie apocalypse survival plan, but not a good part of a save the planet plan.
Your spoofed webwall will lack the correct Comcast cert and trigger security software warnings... not that most people wouldn't give you the info anyways.
Today that kind of spoof can be done by anyone, anywhere with a smartphone app.
I agree with this. I wasn't really aware of OBi like products or thinking about VOIP apps because I personally make make most of my phone calls between locations.
For the ultimate savings you might have to combine Mobile and VOIP...a "found" smartphone with no service, running a Google Voice App on you neighbors' unsecured AP.
Yeah I guess Cricket isn't the deal it once was. You say Boost doesn't explicitly allow tethering, do you know if they have anything about it in TOS?
FWIW Cricket was "allowing" (they weren't actively blocking) tethering and didn't have a data cap in place, on a $40 plan, back when I put this phone on their network. But they've moved to actively looking for and blocking use of tether apps, (charging 5bucks to use them) and only allowing that "feature" on their 60 dollar smartphone plan. If I could do without tethering I'd have stuck with their $40 plan. Also I believe that plan still has no cap, but I haven't checked in some time.
IOW I'm really getting gouged $25/mo to tether. That was worth it to me for work reasons.
This phone is pretty beat up now, so it's probably time to look at what I can do elsewhere.
I can do a basic mobile phone service for about $30 per month. That includes any US long distance calls.
I have a phone on the wall that can dial 911 for free.
I prefer my lowfi Android Cricket connection. $65 per month that gives me unlimited US calls, text, sms, and specifically allows tethering(wifi or usb). It has a data transfer limit of only 1GB per month, but after that they don't charge you they just throttle your bandwidth to ~128kbps. I can usualy still find an open wifi AP for my laptop , but it's nice for when that isn't an option.
I'm going to repeat this, because it didn't get +5 Informative (yet).
5GHz (even802.11a) is best if your office/apartment shares a wall/ceiling/floors with neighbors. It doesn't penetrate as well as 2.4GHz and that means that your wifi isn't affected as much by your neighbors use of the spectrum.
It does increase the need for repeaters to keep the bandwidth high on your own LAN, but you don't get screwed as much by the neighbors.
That might be needed as well, but I don't have any evidence that it does. It'd just a matter of semantics to an observer if the process is good enough.
I can accept the concept of a consciousness transfer to a synthetic brain, but it would require something that duplicates natural brain cells function and replaces them as they fail. Bonus points if it mirrors them before they fail, but that isn't necessary. When later decrepitude causes the last of your organic brain cells to die, and the singular consciousness has become wholly of the synthetic, if you are still conscious you will know it worked. If that consciousness' remaining synthetic brain was then plugged into a new robot body I would still call that you.
But if you have a healthy working brain, and a synthetic version in tandem (like RAID) and yank it to put it in a robot body then it becomes a separate entity.
If the transfer is just a backup that could/would be reactivated in a separate space, I would not consider that to be the same person. And if that backup was restored to multiple hosts I would like to consider each a separate person. A battalion of Steven Hawking Bots? I'd help fund that kickstarter
And if someone said they planned to use digital sampling to record someone's analog identity I'd just ask them to pay in advance, in cash, for anything I was selling them.
"Nobody knows precisely why the outbreak reached such extraordinary levels this year, though several factors are implicated. The most prominent is climate: In the past, environmental conditions at high Central American altitudes were not especially conducive to the fungus, which requires warm, humid air to thrive, said coffee rust specialist Cathy Aime of Purdue University."
Fungus doesn't need to evolve to strive if the local climate changes to accommodate it.
I've upgraded systems often, but that's more due to some quantity of opportunity than to prescience. Every now and then some remarkable upgrade is offered on an existing platform that is worth exploiting. Usually it's just a doubling of CPU performance like A64 CPU to Athlon X2 or Core2Duo to Core2Quad.
I never really built any system with a belief that I would be able to upgrade the CPU. I just hoped for and took advantage of the opportunity. The truth is new CPUs tend to require new motherboards which tend to require new memory and PSUs. Even when a new version of a CPU kept the same socket it would tend to use a (lower) voltage, different (higher) FSB, or a BIOS update that older motherboards wouldn't accommodate.
People tend to look back on the good old days and forget. K6-2 didn't run at full speed on a socket7 mobo, you had to go get a Supersocket7 motherboard. You couldn't replace Celeron 300a CPU with a Coppermine on your i440BX, that required a new (and oddly, inferior) motherboard. VIA's KT133 didn't support AthlonXP. Though in these cases there were sometimes hardware (with a soldering iron or a special slotket) workarounds.
And during this period we went to DDR memory (though intel went DRAM> RDRAM > back to DRAM and then to DDR), new AGP and PCI cards that didn't work in old slots, different PSU connectors and system power requirements that required new PSUs.
Today's systems are moving everything onto the CPU... first memory controllers with Athlon64 and now with Haswell even voltage regulation. Any change anybody makes practically requires a new motherboard.
i7 desktop CPUs alone have used 1366 1155 1156 and 2011 pin sockets and Haswell is being introduced with the 1150. When they come out with a triple or quad memory channel or just something that supports DDR4 it'll mean even more new motherboards.
But there will probably be some combination of hardware that allows someone to brag about how smart they were with a "planned upgrade".
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Seems like these two are fixated on an idea that the robot car will cause some compulsory communal vehicle to be needed... an agenda that would have nothing to do with cars being driven by computers.
I'll purchase or lease my own, TYVM.
Well "wood gas" is the product of heated wood typicaly piped directly to the engine. The wood merely stores the fuel (methane) in a stable medium. You might consider the methane product the actual fuel, but the "tank" is filled with wood.
An AC posted this first but wood gas was (widely during WW2) and still is easily substituted for gasoline (with a severe loss of HP). It's a good part of any zombie apocalypse survival plan, but not a good part of a save the planet plan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas
You could ground your foil surfaced insulation... It'd be like a tin foil hat for your house.
Your spoofed webwall will lack the correct Comcast cert and trigger security software warnings... not that most people wouldn't give you the info anyways.
Today that kind of spoof can be done by anyone, anywhere with a smartphone app.
I agree with this. I wasn't really aware of OBi like products or thinking about VOIP apps because I personally make make most of my phone calls between locations.
For the ultimate savings you might have to combine Mobile and VOIP ...a "found" smartphone with no service, running a Google Voice App on you neighbors' unsecured AP.
I like that OBi.
And you can use something like GrooVe IP on an unactivated smartphones over WIFI.
Yeah I guess Cricket isn't the deal it once was. You say Boost doesn't explicitly allow tethering, do you know if they have anything about it in TOS?
FWIW Cricket was "allowing" (they weren't actively blocking) tethering and didn't have a data cap in place, on a $40 plan, back when I put this phone on their network. But they've moved to actively looking for and blocking use of tether apps, (charging 5bucks to use them) and only allowing that "feature" on their 60 dollar smartphone plan. If I could do without tethering I'd have stuck with their $40 plan. Also I believe that plan still has no cap, but I haven't checked in some time.
IOW I'm really getting gouged $25/mo to tether. That was worth it to me for work reasons.
This phone is pretty beat up now, so it's probably time to look at what I can do elsewhere.
I can do a basic mobile phone service for about $30 per month. That includes any US long distance calls.
I have a phone on the wall that can dial 911 for free.
I prefer my lowfi Android Cricket connection. $65 per month that gives me unlimited US calls, text, sms, and specifically allows tethering(wifi or usb). It has a data transfer limit of only 1GB per month, but after that they don't charge you they just throttle your bandwidth to ~128kbps. I can usualy still find an open wifi AP for my laptop , but it's nice for when that isn't an option.
I'm going to repeat this, because it didn't get +5 Informative (yet).
5GHz (even802.11a) is best if your office/apartment shares a wall/ceiling/floors with neighbors. It doesn't penetrate as well as 2.4GHz and that means that your wifi isn't affected as much by your neighbors use of the spectrum.
It does increase the need for repeaters to keep the bandwidth high on your own LAN, but you don't get screwed as much by the neighbors.
That might be needed as well, but I don't have any evidence that it does. It'd just a matter of semantics to an observer if the process is good enough.
I can accept the concept of a consciousness transfer to a synthetic brain, but it would require something that duplicates natural brain cells function and replaces them as they fail. Bonus points if it mirrors them before they fail, but that isn't necessary. When later decrepitude causes the last of your organic brain cells to die, and the singular consciousness has become wholly of the synthetic, if you are still conscious you will know it worked. If that consciousness' remaining synthetic brain was then plugged into a new robot body I would still call that you.
But if you have a healthy working brain, and a synthetic version in tandem (like RAID) and yank it to put it in a robot body then it becomes a separate entity.
If the transfer is just a backup that could/would be reactivated in a separate space, I would not consider that to be the same person. And if that backup was restored to multiple hosts I would like to consider each a separate person. A battalion of Steven Hawking Bots? I'd help fund that kickstarter
And if someone said they planned to use digital sampling to record someone's analog identity I'd just ask them to pay in advance, in cash, for anything I was selling them.
A copy of you is a duplicate of you. It still isn't you. You still die and cease to exist.
That's always been my argument when this idea comes up. Though if you want to have a legacy of You, it might be better than children.
and I derped that...
Hey! Don't hognoxoius his post!
That will screw will my plans to base a cookbook on them.
Howabout,
"Hi, Do you have good taste? We'd like to serve you!"
Doesn't licensing also restrict (or define) how the software may be redistributed?
From TFA,
"Nobody knows precisely why the outbreak reached such extraordinary levels this year, though several factors are implicated. The most prominent is climate: In the past, environmental conditions at high Central American altitudes were not especially conducive to the fungus, which requires warm, humid air to thrive, said coffee rust specialist Cathy Aime of Purdue University."
Fungus doesn't need to evolve to strive if the local climate changes to accommodate it.
It's cool. Everyone thinks they make the best coffee and beer. It's a thing.
The current cutoff date for valid new OEM installs of win7 is October of 2014. At least last time I looked
If enough fuss is made (by those OEMs) they might extend it further.
Consumer and Buisness bitching really needs to be largely directed at the OEMs IMHO.
Audiophilic SPDIF connectors are supposed to use cocobolo wood plugs lined with titanium for a nice "warm" bitstream.
Hi. There's a tagline for that.
I've upgraded systems often, but that's more due to some quantity of opportunity than to prescience. Every now and then some remarkable upgrade is offered on an existing platform that is worth exploiting. Usually it's just a doubling of CPU performance like A64 CPU to Athlon X2 or Core2Duo to Core2Quad.
I never really built any system with a belief that I would be able to upgrade the CPU. I just hoped for and took advantage of the opportunity. The truth is new CPUs tend to require new motherboards which tend to require new memory and PSUs. Even when a new version of a CPU kept the same socket it would tend to use a (lower) voltage, different (higher) FSB, or a BIOS update that older motherboards wouldn't accommodate.
People tend to look back on the good old days and forget. K6-2 didn't run at full speed on a socket7 mobo, you had to go get a Supersocket7 motherboard. You couldn't replace Celeron 300a CPU with a Coppermine on your i440BX, that required a new (and oddly, inferior) motherboard. VIA's KT133 didn't support AthlonXP. Though in these cases there were sometimes hardware (with a soldering iron or a special slotket) workarounds.
And during this period we went to DDR memory (though intel went DRAM> RDRAM > back to DRAM and then to DDR), new AGP and PCI cards that didn't work in old slots, different PSU connectors and system power requirements that required new PSUs.
Today's systems are moving everything onto the CPU... first memory controllers with Athlon64 and now with Haswell even voltage regulation. Any change anybody makes practically requires a new motherboard.
i7 desktop CPUs alone have used 1366 1155 1156 and 2011 pin sockets and Haswell is being introduced with the 1150. When they come out with a triple or quad memory channel or just something that supports DDR4 it'll mean even more new motherboards.
But there will probably be some combination of hardware that allows someone to brag about how smart they were with a "planned upgrade".
A usable keyboard should demand a multi-hundred dollar premium.