A lot more than you might think. I personally have given 8-10 laptops and PC's to families that would otherwise not have one. And in the grand scheme of things, $300 is doable for a lot of people. Everyone doesn't really need that $2500 gaming rig. Friend/family/corporate castoffs work quite well.
"The Low Tide Lounge" Apple Network"
how could you tell what's a business or city network or whatever?
Personally, I would not assume either was open for anyone to use. But that's just me. A muni network that is supposed to be open should be visibly (SSID) labeled as such.
partly to combat the silly ideas of those that would try to make it a crime to 'attempt to join an open network'
Joining a network that is financed, designed, and built to be open from the start is very different than joining a random 'open' residential network. No matter how the protocol of two computers asking and granting each other access really works.
Since I saw the movie I have done some ad hoc interviewing and have yet to find anyone who needs a daily range beyond 100 miles except for the "road trip" condition.
Let us postulate a 35 mile commute to work. 70 miles round trip. Let us assume a 150 mile range for the EV. Not out of the ordinary.
To have any safe reserve, I have to charge up every night. In a regular IC vehicle, 350 miles is one fillup per week at most.
Personally, I'd rather not have to manage my cars fuel every single day. If the 'refuel' time were shorter (10 mins or so), it wouldn't be so much of a problem. But it's not there yet.
If we could develop a standard cargo space container which could be handled by the soyuz rocket , the Ariane rocket, the space shuttle, the Japanese HTV, the Chinese Long March or the Indian GSLV we would have come a long way in moving towards commercialization of space.
You apparently don't appreciate the payload differences.
Soyuz = VW Beetle Shuttle = tractor trailer
They are all different designs, because they were designed at different times, by different people/countries. We are still in the infancy of space flight. Sea/land container standardization didn't happen for centuries.
This was first recomended in the 1970's and if this recomendation had been followed by the airline industry then 9/11 could never have happened.
Actually, it probably would have. If the 19 terrorists had gone to the next level, and started killing passengers and stews, one a minute until the cockpit door was opened...how long do you think the pilots would have held out? About 2 mins. After 9/11, when the standard hijack scenario of "Take me to Farkistan!" went out (or through) the window...different story.
Saying "Get out of here, this is private property" is not harassment. Even if it is at a distance. The water cannon may be a bit over the line, but how do you get harassment out of the walkie-talkie part?
As far as 'legal measures', the police cannot be everywhere, 24/7. You think the residents haven't called them before?
So many ppl see problems rather than solutions. Amazing.
Not problems, practicalities. This is just like the last mile question with ISP's. But instead, it's the 'last 10 feet'. How we get the actual power to the battery/UC/whatever? If the recharge times are quick enough, then centralized stations (as we have now) are good enough. But if it takes more than, say, 30 minutes, then it will have to be done at home. And thence the apartment question comes into play.
I don't have a solution. But it is a question that needs to be addressed.
One nice thing about electric cars is that they will typically be charging at night.
That's one of the things never really touched on in these elec car discussions. Where, exactly, do you recharge it. Not everyone has a garage. Electric cars would be very well suited to a city environment. But...where and how do you recharge it if you live in an apartment? Can't run an extension cod out the 5th floor window. And a parking meter type charging station is at the mercy of any little asshat unplugging your car. Some sort of locking mechanism, maybe. But you can bet your last petrodollar that there will be problems along these lines.
instead of your dashboard being.25in of plastic, it could easily be.24in of ultracapacitor with.01in of plastic coating.
you ARE joking, right? That large sheet of plastic, right in front of your face, and you want to use it to store an electrical charge? A charge sufficiently large enough to move a ton down the road. I'm assuming in your perfect world, no one ever gets in a crash. Please.
The same goes for every cosmetic part of the car that doesn't need to be transparent or comfy
Every part of the car that isn't transparent or comfy is already doing something else. (And the dashboard damn well better be 'comfy')
Sounds like the USA to me. "Liberal" and "Conservative", yet no matter which is elected the government expands in size and power.
Generally, it most screwed up when both the Executive Branch (President), and the Legislative Branch (Congress) are controlled by the same party. If Bush had had a Democrat controlled Congress, things might not be so screwed up. Now that we have a Democratic controlled Congress...a Democrat president will screw things up just as bad, but maybe in a different direction.
There is no real difference, though. They both just like to bitch about the other party. "If 'we' say it, it's great. If 'they' say the exact same thing, it is wrong and evil."
do you live in the U.S.A? could you imagine the Bush regime making the standards for "verifiable accuracy",
Yes...because all the other administrations have been so much better. Please. I'll be glad when Bush is out of office. Because then you'll have to blame the lies, cover-ups, and simple fuckups of the government on someone else.
Hell no, I wouldn't want the Bush admin having control over these 'standards'. I wouldn't want any other administration having that power either.
It's a Hyperthreaded P-IV 2.6GHz with 2Gig RAM. 5 years old, and still going strong for everything we do on it. Of course, we don't do stuff like ripping DVDs or edit home video...
I have a very similar level PC, and ripping DVD's and editing video works just fine.
However, when the US isn't on a top ten list of connected countries, its really sad.
No, it's not. We were the first connected country. That others have leapfrogged with new technology is to be expected.
If we were to adopt whatever is absolutely fastest today...and somehow roll it out to every house and business in the next 60 days...infrastructure, last mile, everything...by the end of the year, some other country would be 'more connected'.
Every year, some new, faster tech comes out. You want to rewire the entire country every year or so? Not gonna happen.
I was at the Honda dealer a few months ago, looking at the Ridgeline and the Element. Regarding the Element, I told the salesman..."Built by Honda, designed by LEGO".
Many of you have said that the parents should be 'moitoring' what this kid was doing online...she shouldn't be online without supervision, or even questioning that she should be online at all.
Oh, bullshit. If you think for one second that you know every single word that your 13 year old child exchanges with someone else, or every person she talks to, you are seriously deluding yourself. Or you don't actualy have kids in the first place. And if by some weird possibility you DO know what she's doing at every second of the day, you are seriously stifling her, and your picture is in the dictionary next to "Helicopter parent".
By all accounts, the mom DID know what she was doing (or thought, anyway). Talking with a boy at school. The 'talk' went on for some time, very innocently. Until they went nasty with it. And the teenage girl couldn't handle it. Teenage girls are walking bags of hormones. EVERYTHING is drama with them.
I'm not saying we need some special law regarding cyber-bullying. But the responsibility here does lie with the idiot/asshole adult neighbors.
This would rule out the possibility that USA is using this to demonstrate their powers to shoot down ANY satellite. That's false.Not necessarily. The hard part is launch timing and guidance. i.e. Actually hitting the target. More altitude is mostly a function of more fuel and/or larger engine.
I don't understand. What is the harm with a.xxx domain system.
Because it won't work. Hardcore porn is easy to define. Non-porn is easy to define. However, there is a large, wide space in the middle that is impossible to define.
What would be the objext of a.xxx domain? To keep "kids" from seeing porn. To shuffle ANYTHING that could be classed as porn into it, so that parents/teachers/librarians/whomever could wall it off. OK, fine. But that large, wide area in the middle is the problem. Specifically, what is the difference between a Sears catalog page for bras, and the opening shots of a porn movie? Same amount of skin, different mindset. What is the difference between VicSecret.com and a lingerie fetish porn shoot? The hand 6" higher on the thigh.
It can't be defined closely enough for.xxx to actually work.
Secondarily...what is the enforcement? What about your vacation pics from Costa Brava, that happen to be at a topless beach?.xxx or no? Who would fine you for posting them on Flikr?
I understand some business want to drive off adolescents, but maybe they should consider trying to enforce local ordinances against loitering if they exist.
The shopkeeper can't enforce squat. The ones who can, the police....don't. If they did, the shopkeeper wouldn't have had to resort to this thing. This is obviously not the first option they tried.
As females do more shopping, unless this just being used at the Bass Pro shop, they will find their overall business dropping.
Maybe the shopkeepers feel it is better to lose a few legitimate customers because they can hear this, rather than ALL customers because of the unruly gang outside.
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Make it obvious. "This WiFi is free to use. Just don't screw it up"
Who among them can afford a computer?
A lot more than you might think. I personally have given 8-10 laptops and PC's to families that would otherwise not have one. And in the grand scheme of things, $300 is doable for a lot of people. Everyone doesn't really need that $2500 gaming rig. Friend/family/corporate castoffs work quite well.
"The Low Tide Lounge"
Apple Network"
how could you tell what's a business or city network or whatever?
Personally, I would not assume either was open for anyone to use. But that's just me.
A muni network that is supposed to be open should be visibly (SSID) labeled as such.
My point is that the poor user won't usually be able to tell the difference between an intentionally open vs accidentally open network.
Maybe the muni network SSID should be something like "Houston Open Access Network". Easy to make it unambiguous.
partly to combat the silly ideas of those that would try to make it a crime to 'attempt to join an open network'
Joining a network that is financed, designed, and built to be open from the start is very different than joining a random 'open' residential network. No matter how the protocol of two computers asking and granting each other access really works.
Since I saw the movie I have done some ad hoc interviewing and have yet to find anyone who needs a daily range beyond 100 miles except for the "road trip" condition.
Let us postulate a 35 mile commute to work. 70 miles round trip.
Let us assume a 150 mile range for the EV. Not out of the ordinary.
To have any safe reserve, I have to charge up every night. In a regular IC vehicle, 350 miles is one fillup per week at most.
Personally, I'd rather not have to manage my cars fuel every single day. If the 'refuel' time were shorter (10 mins or so), it wouldn't be so much of a problem. But it's not there yet.
If we could develop a standard cargo space container which could be handled by the soyuz rocket , the Ariane rocket, the space shuttle, the Japanese HTV, the Chinese Long March or the Indian GSLV we would have come a long way in moving towards commercialization of space.
You apparently don't appreciate the payload differences.
Soyuz = VW Beetle
Shuttle = tractor trailer
They are all different designs, because they were designed at different times, by different people/countries. We are still in the infancy of space flight. Sea/land container standardization didn't happen for centuries.
This was first recomended in the 1970's and if this recomendation had been followed by the airline industry then 9/11 could never have happened.
Actually, it probably would have. If the 19 terrorists had gone to the next level, and started killing passengers and stews, one a minute until the cockpit door was opened...how long do you think the pilots would have held out? About 2 mins.
After 9/11, when the standard hijack scenario of "Take me to Farkistan!" went out (or through) the window...different story.
Saying "Get out of here, this is private property" is not harassment. Even if it is at a distance. The water cannon may be a bit over the line, but how do you get harassment out of the walkie-talkie part?
As far as 'legal measures', the police cannot be everywhere, 24/7. You think the residents haven't called them before?
pizza and delivery trucks would drive on and off with no trouble.
A lot of the pizza drivers are active duty or retired mil. They take the runs on base specifically to avoid any hassles.
I was one of those.
So many ppl see problems rather than solutions. Amazing.
Not problems, practicalities. This is just like the last mile question with ISP's. But instead, it's the 'last 10 feet'. How we get the actual power to the battery/UC/whatever? If the recharge times are quick enough, then centralized stations (as we have now) are good enough. But if it takes more than, say, 30 minutes, then it will have to be done at home. And thence the apartment question comes into play.
I don't have a solution. But it is a question that needs to be addressed.
One nice thing about electric cars is that they will typically be charging at night.
That's one of the things never really touched on in these elec car discussions. Where, exactly, do you recharge it. Not everyone has a garage. Electric cars would be very well suited to a city environment. But...where and how do you recharge it if you live in an apartment? Can't run an extension cod out the 5th floor window. And a parking meter type charging station is at the mercy of any little asshat unplugging your car. Some sort of locking mechanism, maybe. But you can bet your last petrodollar that there will be problems along these lines.
instead of your dashboard being .25in of plastic, it could easily be .24in of ultracapacitor with .01in of plastic coating.
you ARE joking, right? That large sheet of plastic, right in front of your face, and you want to use it to store an electrical charge? A charge sufficiently large enough to move a ton down the road. I'm assuming in your perfect world, no one ever gets in a crash.
Please.
The same goes for every cosmetic part of the car that doesn't need to be transparent or comfy
Every part of the car that isn't transparent or comfy is already doing something else. (And the dashboard damn well better be 'comfy')
Sounds like the USA to me. "Liberal" and "Conservative", yet no matter which is elected the government expands in size and power.
Generally, it most screwed up when both the Executive Branch (President), and the Legislative Branch (Congress) are controlled by the same party. If Bush had had a Democrat controlled Congress, things might not be so screwed up. Now that we have a Democratic controlled Congress...a Democrat president will screw things up just as bad, but maybe in a different direction.
There is no real difference, though. They both just like to bitch about the other party.
"If 'we' say it, it's great. If 'they' say the exact same thing, it is wrong and evil."
do you live in the U.S.A? could you imagine the Bush regime making the standards for "verifiable accuracy",
Yes...because all the other administrations have been so much better. Please.
I'll be glad when Bush is out of office. Because then you'll have to blame the lies, cover-ups, and simple fuckups of the government on someone else.
Hell no, I wouldn't want the Bush admin having control over these 'standards'. I wouldn't want any other administration having that power either.
It's a Hyperthreaded P-IV 2.6GHz with 2Gig RAM. 5 years old, and still going strong for everything we do on it. Of course, we don't do stuff like ripping DVDs or edit home video...
I have a very similar level PC, and ripping DVD's and editing video works just fine.
Do they seriously come up with a completely new type of fiber every single year?
New type of fiber? No. New technologies and specs to deliver broadband to a house or business? Yeah, just about.
In the last decade:
DOCSIS - 1, 2, 3, and intermediate versions
Multiple flavors of DSL
FIOS
WiMAX
Satellite
BPL
However, when the US isn't on a top ten list of connected countries, its really sad.
No, it's not. We were the first connected country. That others have leapfrogged with new technology is to be expected.
If we were to adopt whatever is absolutely fastest today...and somehow roll it out to every house and business in the next 60 days...infrastructure, last mile, everything...by the end of the year, some other country would be 'more connected'.
Every year, some new, faster tech comes out. You want to rewire the entire country every year or so? Not gonna happen.
The Honda is pardonable because it's Japanese.
I was at the Honda dealer a few months ago, looking at the Ridgeline and the Element. Regarding the Element, I told the salesman..."Built by Honda, designed by LEGO".
Many of you have said that the parents should be 'moitoring' what this kid was doing online...she shouldn't be online without supervision, or even questioning that she should be online at all.
Oh, bullshit.
If you think for one second that you know every single word that your 13 year old child exchanges with someone else, or every person she talks to, you are seriously deluding yourself. Or you don't actualy have kids in the first place.
And if by some weird possibility you DO know what she's doing at every second of the day, you are seriously stifling her, and your picture is in the dictionary next to "Helicopter parent".
By all accounts, the mom DID know what she was doing (or thought, anyway). Talking with a boy at school. The 'talk' went on for some time, very innocently. Until they went nasty with it. And the teenage girl couldn't handle it. Teenage girls are walking bags of hormones. EVERYTHING is drama with them.
I'm not saying we need some special law regarding cyber-bullying. But the responsibility here does lie with the idiot/asshole adult neighbors.
This would rule out the possibility that USA is using this to demonstrate their powers to shoot down ANY satellite. That's false.Not necessarily. The hard part is launch timing and guidance. i.e. Actually hitting the target. More altitude is mostly a function of more fuel and/or larger engine.
I notice that they list "slaughtering small mammals and birds" on the list. What the hell kind of skill is that? Did such a "skill" ever have value?
It had great value if you wanted to eat.
I don't understand. What is the harm with a .xxx domain system.
.xxx domain? To keep "kids" from seeing porn. To shuffle ANYTHING that could be classed as porn into it, so that parents/teachers/librarians/whomever could wall it off. OK, fine. But that large, wide area in the middle is the problem. Specifically, what is the difference between a Sears catalog page for bras, and the opening shots of a porn movie? Same amount of skin, different mindset.
.xxx to actually work.
.xxx or no? Who would fine you for posting them on Flikr?
Because it won't work. Hardcore porn is easy to define. Non-porn is easy to define. However, there is a large, wide space in the middle that is impossible to define.
What would be the objext of a
What is the difference between VicSecret.com and a lingerie fetish porn shoot? The hand 6" higher on the thigh.
It can't be defined closely enough for
Secondarily...what is the enforcement? What about your vacation pics from Costa Brava, that happen to be at a topless beach?
It wouldn't work.
I understand some business want to drive off adolescents, but maybe they should consider trying to enforce local ordinances against loitering if they exist.
The shopkeeper can't enforce squat. The ones who can, the police....don't. If they did, the shopkeeper wouldn't have had to resort to this thing.
This is obviously not the first option they tried.
As females do more shopping, unless this just being used at the Bass Pro shop, they will find their overall business dropping.
Maybe the shopkeepers feel it is better to lose a few legitimate customers because they can hear this, rather than ALL customers because of the unruly gang outside.