More choice needs to be enabled, so we aren't being held hostage until 18, 16, or 15 depending on the state you are in. It should have been up to me and my parents to get the hell out of there and start some post secondary much earlier in life.
No problem. Quit at 16, get your GED, start community college that fall. After a year or 18 mos of that, transfer to a regular 4 year school. Degree at 20.
How about a box of crayons. Candyland. A tricycle. A soccer ball. If you must, a restricted user acct on your desktop, with a kid-applicable set of games.
I can't imagine any 'real' laptop being sturdy enough for a 2 year old. He *will* drop it one day. Or simply trip over the cord, pulling t off the desk.
Fujitsu did state that they calculated that their plan would be profitable. That should have been the first clue right there.
Newsflash - Selling computers is profitable. I this gets a few more sales that would have otherwise gone to HP or Dell, then profitable it may be. So what? Or is 'profit' a bad word nowadays?
DO NOT PUT IT IN YOUR SAFE DEPOSIT BOX. If you are deceased the bank is not supposed to grant access to anyone until your estate is in probate, which will be tough if your will's in the box.
YMMV, but many states specifically allow entrance into a bank deposit box, specifically and only to look for and retrieve a will. Nothing else may be removed until later and everything has gone through probate. I went through this with my dads estate in Ohio a few years ago.
All your other stuff...passwords, USB sticks, whatever...doesn't count. The will is different.
The style of hits and level of effort is completely different. Football/soccer/rugby are all intense, but different. The game has grown around the equipment and the rules. An unpadded rugby or soccer player simply cannot take the level of hits a fully padded American football lineman can. Likewise, an American football player cannot sustain the continuous level of effort a soccer player can. He'd keel over after 15 minutes. Likewise, a soccer player cannot sustain for 45 minutes the level of effort an American football player does for 8 seconds, then rest.
All different, but just as intense.
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Why is this too much work? You're not talking thousands of homes, you're theoretically talking at most a couple of hundred which can easily be serviced by two routers utilizing XRRP or some kind of redundant routing protocol.
Before long, you will be talking thousands of homes. Some enterprising group of guys will start a small business of 'managing HOA & condo communications'. The various HOAs will contract out to these guys, because it is easier (and may be cheaper) than trying to do it themselves. Eventually, that company will run all of the HOA/condo/subdivision comms in an area or city. Hey, look...we just reinvented Comcast!
HOAs do this already. Frequently, the HOA is not run by the 'homeowners', but rather a faceless company that provides that same functionality.
If your car is designed and built to do a full recharge in 7 hours at 220v, but the city has prematurely decided on only 110v charging stations...
[reverse car analogy] If the city builds out a new full coverage wireless internet system, but on an as yet undecided protocol, what happens when the rest of the world decides to go another way, because it is better?
All I'm saying is...no one system for electric cars has shaken out as 'best'. It will eventually. But this is still a little premature.
What has to be standardized is the last 10 foot of cable.
Yes.
They are building the grid, that part that feeds that last ten feet.
The linked article specifically talks about home and workplace charging stations, and battery replacement. That 'last ten feet'. Show me one viable elec car with an easily replaceable battery pack. Just one. Now show me another make/model that uses the same system.
Either battery replacement, or plug-ins. We don't yet have a standard as to how to recharge these cars.
110v...220v...different plugs...different acceptable recharge times. Replacement batteries will require some sort of mechanical/robotic system to do it. Your grandmother is not going to wrestle a 100lb battery pack out of the car. And none of the elec cars I've seen have easily (no more than 5 mins) replaceable packs.
Finally, we have the apartment problem. If I live on the 4th floor, how do I ensure my car won't be unplugged overnight by some miscreant on the street.
All of these can be overcome. But spending billions to build out a grid for this without the standardization in place will fail.
I really, REALLY want this to succeed. But this effort may be premature.
give each merchant ship contact information for the carrier(s) in an area, so they can call in a strafing run on any small, well armed boats that get too close (like pirate 911).
By the time the 'small, well armed boat' is identifiably too close...it is too close for an aircraft to get there in time. Plus which, the military pilot can't just take the word of some random guy about whether to shoot some other random boat in the water.
I would rather see justice than death in this case though.
Justice from where? What court do you try them in? Somalia has no functioning government.
It's funny, the shit has been hitting the fan for innocent civilians in Somalia but it only gets real attention (and demand for NATO intervention) when it starts to affect our trade ships
Going into Somalia with assistance was tried not so long ago. Didn't work out too well. It's not surprising that there is no real desire to try it again.
Imagine having nothing to do for 24 hours a day other than think of ways to smuggle shit past the guards.
Smuggling shit is notoriously easy. Everyone of us does it every day. Smuggling other stuff, like cellphones or weapons, is somewhat harder, and requires a modicum of thought.
I say this is a good thing, but we shouldn't stop there. I'd say everyone's car should have [hidden] video cameras...
We are slowly, but surely, building a time machine. These cop cams, combined with the various company, govt, and cellphone cams, will eventually create a video log of just about evrything.
Soon, you'll be able to pull up a searchable website, input a date/time and address, and see what was happening. Or follow a car around for a while.
A crime was committed? No problem. Follow the car backwards from the scene until he leaves home. Or follow your spouse around. Or stalk the hottie down the street. The 'abuse of authority' will come not only from the authorities, but also that nosy lady who lives around the corner. Combine this with Google's FaceLocator(beta), and you could upload a pic of a face, and locate where they were 1 minute ago.
The integration of all this hasn't arrived yet, or hasn't been built yet. But it will. Everything you do, everywhere you go, everyone you meet. Archived and searchable on someone elses server. Forever.
If they skydive twice a month on average, it says something.
Yes. It tells you they like to skydive. Nothing more. I went skydiving for the first time for my 50th b-day. The cameraman, who made 5(?) jumps that day, was around my age.
I also mountain bike regularly. Generally seen as a younger persons sport. This winter, I get back into skiing and snowboarding (finally have the $$ again).
Age is only a big deal if you let it be a big deal.
FTA:
"It is possible to build a wireless camera with the dimensions of the eyeball,"
Want said the camera, which would be encased in Vlach's prosthesis to avoid moisture, could link wirelessly to a smart phone.
The smart phone could send power to the camera wirelessly and relay the camera's video feed by cell phone network to another person,
The effects of cellphone emissions are as yet unproven to be harmful or not harmful. But I'd think putting the rad source right next to your brain, without even the skull material as a blocker, would be a pretty bad idea.
But, if she wants to be the guinea pig...go for it. Who knows...she may spontaneously sprout a 3rd eye.
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It's better for IBM. No one ever said it was better for you.
More choice needs to be enabled, so we aren't being held hostage until 18, 16, or 15 depending on the state you are in. It should have been up to me and my parents to get the hell out of there and start some post secondary much earlier in life.
No problem. Quit at 16, get your GED, start community college that fall.
After a year or 18 mos of that, transfer to a regular 4 year school. Degree at 20.
Actually, it appears that Greenpeace is a political organization that plays on people's guilt in order to gain funding.
To quote one very vocal 'greenie':
"They played on our fears!!"
We didn't get a kids lapotop. He just uses my wife's Dell.
If you read carefully, that's what a lot of us are saying. Let him play, but his *own* laptop? That's merely silly at age 2.
How about a box of crayons. Candyland. A tricycle. A soccer ball.
If you must, a restricted user acct on your desktop, with a kid-applicable set of games.
I can't imagine any 'real' laptop being sturdy enough for a 2 year old. He *will* drop it one day. Or simply trip over the cord, pulling t off the desk.
Fujitsu did state that they calculated that their plan would be profitable. That should have been the first clue right there.
Newsflash - Selling computers is profitable. I this gets a few more sales that would have otherwise gone to HP or Dell, then profitable it may be. So what?
Or is 'profit' a bad word nowadays?
OK, so am I the only one surprised at this
I have one from the late 90's. P133, massive 2gb drive. Bought at CompUSA.
It still runs, mostly.
If it doesn't have to actually display anything real, fake it.
No one outside the company will know.
DO NOT PUT IT IN YOUR SAFE DEPOSIT BOX. If you are deceased the bank is not supposed to grant access to anyone until your estate is in probate, which will be tough if your will's in the box.
YMMV, but many states specifically allow entrance into a bank deposit box, specifically and only to look for and retrieve a will. Nothing else may be removed until later and everything has gone through probate.
I went through this with my dads estate in Ohio a few years ago.
All your other stuff...passwords, USB sticks, whatever...doesn't count. The will is different.
The style of hits and level of effort is completely different. Football/soccer/rugby are all intense, but different. The game has grown around the equipment and the rules. An unpadded rugby or soccer player simply cannot take the level of hits a fully padded American football lineman can.
Likewise, an American football player cannot sustain the continuous level of effort a soccer player can. He'd keel over after 15 minutes.
Likewise, a soccer player cannot sustain for 45 minutes the level of effort an American football player does for 8 seconds, then rest.
All different, but just as intense.
Why is this too much work? You're not talking thousands of homes, you're theoretically talking at most a couple of hundred which can easily be serviced by two routers utilizing XRRP or some kind of redundant routing protocol.
Before long, you will be talking thousands of homes. Some enterprising group of guys will start a small business of 'managing HOA & condo communications'. The various HOAs will contract out to these guys, because it is easier (and may be cheaper) than trying to do it themselves. Eventually, that company will run all of the HOA/condo/subdivision comms in an area or city.
Hey, look...we just reinvented Comcast!
HOAs do this already. Frequently, the HOA is not run by the 'homeowners', but rather a faceless company that provides that same functionality.
put a rectenna in the base of the car, and charge by induction from underneath the pavement (pick a frequency that meat doesn't absorb very well).
You've never lived anywhere with significant amounts of snow, I take it?
If your car is designed and built to do a full recharge in 7 hours at 220v, but the city has prematurely decided on only 110v charging stations...
[reverse car analogy] If the city builds out a new full coverage wireless internet system, but on an as yet undecided protocol, what happens when the rest of the world decides to go another way, because it is better?
All I'm saying is...no one system for electric cars has shaken out as 'best'. It will eventually. But this is still a little premature.
What has to be standardized is the last 10 foot of cable.
Yes.
They are building the grid, that part that feeds that last ten feet.
The linked article specifically talks about home and workplace charging stations, and battery replacement. That 'last ten feet'.
Show me one viable elec car with an easily replaceable battery pack. Just one.
Now show me another make/model that uses the same system.
Either battery replacement, or plug-ins. We don't yet have a standard as to how to recharge these cars.
110v...220v...different plugs...different acceptable recharge times.
Replacement batteries will require some sort of mechanical/robotic system to do it. Your grandmother is not going to wrestle a 100lb battery pack out of the car. And none of the elec cars I've seen have easily (no more than 5 mins) replaceable packs.
Finally, we have the apartment problem. If I live on the 4th floor, how do I ensure my car won't be unplugged overnight by some miscreant on the street.
All of these can be overcome. But spending billions to build out a grid for this without the standardization in place will fail.
I really, REALLY want this to succeed. But this effort may be premature.
give each merchant ship contact information for the carrier(s) in an area, so they can call in a strafing run on any small, well armed boats that get too close (like pirate 911).
By the time the 'small, well armed boat' is identifiably too close...it is too close for an aircraft to get there in time. Plus which, the military pilot can't just take the word of some random guy about whether to shoot some other random boat in the water.
I would rather see justice than death in this case though.
Justice from where? What court do you try them in? Somalia has no functioning government.
It's funny, the shit has been hitting the fan for innocent civilians in Somalia but it only gets real attention (and demand for NATO intervention) when it starts to affect our trade ships
Going into Somalia with assistance was tried not so long ago. Didn't work out too well. It's not surprising that there is no real desire to try it again.
Imagine having nothing to do for 24 hours a day other than think of ways to smuggle shit past the guards.
Smuggling shit is notoriously easy. Everyone of us does it every day. Smuggling other stuff, like cellphones or weapons, is somewhat harder, and requires a modicum of thought.
I say this is a good thing, but we shouldn't stop there. I'd say everyone's car should have [hidden] video cameras...
We are slowly, but surely, building a time machine. These cop cams, combined with the various company, govt, and cellphone cams, will eventually create a video log of just about evrything.
Soon, you'll be able to pull up a searchable website, input a date/time and address, and see what was happening. Or follow a car around for a while.
A crime was committed? No problem. Follow the car backwards from the scene until he leaves home. Or follow your spouse around. Or stalk the hottie down the street.
The 'abuse of authority' will come not only from the authorities, but also that nosy lady who lives around the corner. Combine this with Google's FaceLocator(beta), and you could upload a pic of a face, and locate where they were 1 minute ago.
The integration of all this hasn't arrived yet, or hasn't been built yet. But it will.
Everything you do, everywhere you go, everyone you meet. Archived and searchable on someone elses server. Forever.
Was not disappointed.
If they skydive twice a month on average, it says something.
Yes. It tells you they like to skydive. Nothing more.
I went skydiving for the first time for my 50th b-day. The cameraman, who made 5(?) jumps that day, was around my age.
I also mountain bike regularly. Generally seen as a younger persons sport. This winter, I get back into skiing and snowboarding (finally have the $$ again).
Age is only a big deal if you let it be a big deal.
Never go back for your bag.
FTA:
"It is possible to build a wireless camera with the dimensions of the eyeball,"
Want said the camera, which would be encased in Vlach's prosthesis to avoid moisture, could link wirelessly to a smart phone.
The smart phone could send power to the camera wirelessly and relay the camera's video feed by cell phone network to another person,
The effects of cellphone emissions are as yet unproven to be harmful or not harmful. But I'd think putting the rad source right next to your brain, without even the skull material as a blocker, would be a pretty bad idea.
But, if she wants to be the guinea pig...go for it.
Who knows...she may spontaneously sprout a 3rd eye.
Yeah, but what if 98% of the people you meet say that the world is full of morons?
They're right. It IS full of morans.
Someone needs to update the goatse.cx to make use of all the 261 megapixels!
It doesn't work that way. You can't put more info into the thing than was there originally.
Oh, wait...