So, have you asked "mainstream" developers why they don't have their steam games ported to Linux yet? Or is your category of 'shitty games' inclusive of all Steam games as well?
For Photography, work out your budget, figure out what you need for your style of taking pictures, and buy the best memory you can afford for your needs. If you can get by with class 4 or class 6 memory, great. If you find that you need class 10, try out some of the budget options noted above and see if they serve your needs.
For other uses, you may very well find that a slower card actually works better for you than a 'faster' card. Class 10 is great for streaming large volumes of data onto the card, but experience has shown in the microsd cards that if you need to do a lot of small file manipulations, read and write, etc. a class 4 may outperform a class 10 card. This is of interest to people doing cyanogen mod implementations running off of the sdcard, but is a completely different use case from a photographer shooting high res photos, or a videographer shooting HD video.
So I guess the question then is do I want to spend the premium on several memory cards, move the images off of them when I set up my 3-2-1 backups of the images and re-use them, or do I want to spend 10 or more times that to replace the camera I'm using with a camera with a bigger buffer?
If I'm already going to get the new camera for other reasons, that's one thing. Getting a camera because I want to save on SD cards seems counter-intuitive to me.
Likewise I'm more likely to take an older camera with me on vacation to shoot with, and carry a few extra high speed storage cards rather than run the risk of my new high end camera going swimming or taking a walk on me. Sure insurance may help me, but I'm a bit more comfortable with having something I am less concerned about being damaged if something goes wrong. But that's me. To each their own.
I'm seeing a lot of partial solutions here. Both in what has been done, and in what is being proposed. The first thing you should be doing though has been mentioned, and that's talk with your insurance adjuster. At the very least you can find out what your liabilities are for various security measures, and possibly what measures will reduce your insurance rates.
Start by looking at what a thief is going to see as they look at how to enter the property. You may find the TV series from a few years back "it takes a thief" (or something like that) helpful in looking at the entire place for security problems. The doors and windows may be barred, but is it possible to gain access through the floor, or ceiling? Even a good barred door may be a problem if it's sheltered in such a way that you can't see if someone is working on the lock.
Part of that should also be looking at what you can do to improve deterrence. Signs, visible (if non-functional) alarm panels, even a steadily blinking light next to a sign labeled 'Alarm System' can be a deterrent.
And finally look for ways to monitor the approaches to the property both front and back, and if the building is stand alone, all around the building. You may want to use PIR along with IR Lighting to capture movement around the building.
If you are presuming that someone will break in after you've identified (and hopefully fixed) the issues from outside, then you're to the detect and defend internal options. High resolution cameras, covering the access points. Motion detection, door and window open sensors, glass break detectors, etc. These are intended to generate alerts and set up a means to capture what information you can about the thief. Tip, mark the door frame on either side of likely entrances with contrasting tape to form a crude (half foot or 20 cm increment) tape measure to give you a quick estimate of how tall someone passing by the entrance is.
Obviously you will need to decide for yourself how critical it is to secure different parts of your store. High value gem dealers usually place their entire stock in a vault of some sort overnight. If you know what the reason is behind the break-ins in the area (paying for drugs being common) you may be able to protect high value items by making it easier to steel a few low value items that you are less concerned about loosing.
Understand what the thief is working with. Unless you've been cased for a professional theft, in which case you're insurance carrier may have other suggestions for you, Most thefts are a snatch and grab variety, the thief is looking to get in, get something and get out. Be gone before the cops show up. If you know the cops will be there within 20 min, (talk with other businesses in the area that have experienced break-ins to find out if that estimate is even in the balpark) then you know how hard you have to make it for a thief to get at the valuables.
Also set policies (and follow them) for how to deal with elements of the store that are critical for operating. Assume that a thief can get the cash register, all cash within the store, and possibly your computers in the store. Does someone have a spare cash register, and operating cash for the day that they can bring in at the start of the day if you need to get going while making repairs? Is there sufficient spare stock in an off-site storage to get up and running the next business day, or are you going to be waiting a week for your suppliers to restock? Is the customer information on your systems at work in a secure system? Do you have off site backups of your inventory and books? Have you a policy of depositing all cash over and above what you absolutely have to have for daily operations on a nightly basis? Do you have multiple known locations where you can make those deposits so that if construction makes your usual after hours depository unavailable you can still make your deposit. Have you tested your off site backup solution to confirm that if your systems up and left, or a vandal cam in and drove a pick-ax
Are you seeing the same photos of users of this implant as I am?
Or did you read the informative article where it states: "Specifically the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System includes a small video camera, transmitter mounted on a pair of eyeglasses, video processing unit (VPU) and an implanted artificial retina."?
..."Always listen to experts. They will tell you what can't be done, and why. Then you can go and do it anyway."
I'm not saying that any or all of the comments above are from experts. Nor am I saying that this "drive" will work either. I will say that If this drive works, a large proportion of the 'experts' are likely to say that it doesn't and that the evidence to the contrary is faked ("Don't show me a video of this working in a vacuum, you have to show me in person!" Sounds like you're offering to pay for a couple of people, yourself included, to go to space, do a space walk, to observe this working. Somehow I don't expect that will happen.) Initially a small number will allow that it's possible that this may work, but that they don't understand enough about the system to explain it. And there will be a few who say "I'm glad I put some money behind that project, if it was a wash, oh well. But it worked, now I'm flush."
As for me, it doesn't work with what I know of physics, but that doesn't mean my understanding of physics is complete. In fact I know it is not complete. If it works, great. If it doesn't, well there is likely to be another idea around the bend, similarly unlikely to be effective. I expect we'll give some of them a try too. And who knows, something might stick to the walls.
I would think that the problem here is that the people who this information would potentially protect, are unlikely to be people who would read the report to begin with.
The real beneficiaries of a report like this from Cisco is the firewall manager who needs to explain to the management team why the corporate firewall needs to be blocking online shopping sites, but he or she has been advised not to remind management that in most cases corporate productivity will probably go up if the employees are not shopping at Amazon or B&N when they should be working on whatever their day to day job is supposed to be.
Probably, but you just know that PC World will be flooded with articles about how the new Graphene interface based phones will take over the business cell phone market, and Endgadget will have a dozen articles by 2 authors about how Apple had developed it first and how the Apple products being released into the market have a much slicker implementation.
People of course will be dropping both editions into the toilet.
As a developer I'd really rather know if the app that I was developing could possibly be used in ways that it's not supposed to be used. I.e. the discovered vulnerability. He reported the vulnerability, and was told that it had been fixed.
Frankly I want to know for myself if the vulnerability was fixed, rather than just relying on someone else's say so before I release an app that I'm developing that may be used in unexpected and undesirable ways.
That said, the test should have been performed with the oversight of the people responsible for the system being tested. Better it should have been tested against a duplicate of the system as a testing environment, preferably with valid but unrelated data. Then tested against the real data system if the test system passes. Again only with administrative oversight.
Finally, an NDA for such a situation should be worded so that the NDA applies while the reported bug is being patched and has been made available to schools and businesses using the system and a reasonable time following that availability to give the admins time to test and deploy the patched system. Once those events have happened, the NDA should no longer be applicable. After all the vendor has addressed the flaw. Additionally the NDA should have an absolute expiration date giving the vendor the incentive to actually fix the problem.
My other concern with this behavior is that as a developer I expect people reporting that they have fixed the identified problem to ask that the person reporting the problem in the first place, follow up and confirm that the flaw is not there any more, and advise them of any other problems that may be detected. That would be an invitation to do exactly what the student did. Check the fix and look for other problems.
That said, those are techniques in the open source community. In the closed source community, it wouldn't surprise me if the vendor was OK with fixing the original reported flaw, but didn't want to learn about anything else, and asked the school to watch out for the behavior that might indicate the student was looking for other flaws, rather than seeking them out themselves and fixing them ahead of time.
It's called a 3d printer with PLA, and a technique called casting. Heck since one sode of this will be flat (ok, two sides,) you could probably do this with ABS plastic. Sure you need a software model, but you cnd probably frough one up fast enough in SketchUp, Blender, or even Corel Draw, simply knowing the requirements for mounting to the shaft and mounting pedals to it. And you'llprobalby have to tap the holes for securing each, but so long as your 3d Printer can handle the dimensions of a crank arm, you're golden.
Cast em out of aluminum, brush and laquor them, have fun with the custom cranks. Or if you're less concerned about weight, looks, durability, etc. cast em out of lead, gold, silver, platinum, use the abs print as a core for a carbon fiber build. Use the model to CNC them out of a block of stainless. Build a small mass driven generator into them and add LED's and an arduino to show of pretty lights, present a message as you're riding down the street, whatever.
I'm going to hazard that someone is holding the Nokia stock value up on the belief that the IP collection they supposedly are sitting on (patents including standards essential patents.)
I agree that Ballmer should rate a dishonorable mention though. But other than the news this past week of how Windows stands compared to other OS' on all platforms, I haven't been hearing all that much about him this past year.
...Google will write that app for the Windows Phone platform when they consider the platform to have enough adopters to make the effort worthwhile. Perhaps they should start with a Symbian based client. Follow that up with a WebOS based one as well.
I work about 45 feet underground and the only cell service available is through a carrier that I won't use. Should my company ever provide me with a cell phone that may change, but I'm not expecting that upgrade any time soon.
I rarely if ever use skype, whether at work, or at home. At work it would not punch through the corporate firewall, and at home I don't have sufficient need to use it to communicate with family or friends as most can reach me via other platforms.
At work I actually have two phones at my desk, one for day to day calls, and another for bridge lines that I need to monitor. Some of the managers around here have 3 phones on their desks to give them that capability for multiple bridge lines, and also to have a line available to contact their managers for issues that need their attention.
The firewall pretty much blocks all forms of VPN, IM and SIP that can't run over http through a proxy. All such traffic is continuously monitored and content which violates corporate policy may subject the employee to disciplinary processes including (and not limited to) termination.
These limitations would be imposed on me if I were using a corporate Laptop or PC at home as well, as I would be required to establish a vpn to work and all my network traffic wold be required to go through that connection.
I suspect that this is not unusual for people who work in the financial and trading sectors. At the very least it is an effort being made by the corporations involved to prevent themselves from being subject to penalties related to insider trading. I also suspect that several companies have even harsher limits on what their employees can do across the internet simply because companies are looking to protect customer and owner assets that may be affected by a variety of black hat hacker attacks as well as reducing the potential for damage caused by disgruntled employees (or former employees.)
Before complaining that this is harsh, and hardly the usual treatment technology users should expect, I have to say that I happen to like where I work, the people I work with, and most of the people I work for. I like most of our customers and most of our stock holders. I can say that this is not unusual in the group I work with, as this is the first company I've worked with where I've had more people leave the group through retirement than through 'better' job offers elsewhere. No, things are not perfect, but on the whole, things are not bad.
...the internet is based on open protocols. They can look up the specs, read the descriptions of the protocols, write test software, and write software all day long to support their needs. I think we should encourage all police state advocates to write their own software. Unless they have more important things to do, like stop burglars, capture pickpockets, etc. It's Canada after all, not exactly a major site for the burgeoning drug war the US is hemorrhaging money into.
He points out in the comments on his blog post that he has not tested the font completely on Windows browsers. Apparently different browsers in Windows are rendering the font differently though, and he's working on the issue when he has time available. A specific complaint was the appearance that the font is faded at the top for some readers.
The problem very well may be render-er specific though. The assumption that not all browsers on windows are using the windows font rendering feature. I suspect that this is the case for people reporting similar issues with PDF's using the font as well. Unless the PDF is of scanned documents, the rendering of text is done in the viewer rather than at the source of the text.
Something that I don't thing got much play in the article is that each of the 64 Pi boards has a SOC processor that in addition to the general purpose processor also includes a 48 core processor optimized for graphics. And yes in http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1967 they note that there is already code that can use those processors for graphics. I have little doubt that someone looking at the code can port one of the gpu processing libraries to make use of these processors for other numerically intensive purposes.
So don't forget to add in sufficient video processing to provide 3072 cores of processing equivalence to your rig. I suspect that you can figure out how to do that as you've already calculated what you feel is the equivalent general processing equivalent (or better) for your sample system. I'm not sure that the resulting system would still fit in a 1u case, but it might.
...my new over-priced disposable hardware source. Of course if I want disposable hardware, I'm pretty sure I can find it fr less on e-bay, but sometimes you just want something that people will think is pretty.
For the past decade, and then some, all entry level tech support jobs have been being farmed out because it was cheaper to contract it to someone earning minimum wage who could read a script, and got no benefits, or to someone working some place where minimum wage was even less than it is here in the US. So all of the people who have had the opportunity to learn your products from the ground up, are either have no confidence that you are looking for them (when is the last time you hired a contract support tech in house to provide that support for your customers and granted them benefits?) or have been job hopping in another country where all anyone gives them is a script to follow. (scripts don't tend to engender creative problem solving.)
Likewise for developers. Sure you can find companies that hire developers right out of school, or even before school is out. But if your business has been moving all of it's development work to places where you're paying $50 a month instead of $50 an hour, and you hire 40 of those developers to try to do as much as the one developer you replaced, why on earth would any developer even consider working for you in the states?
At some point it will depend on your definition of efficiency.
At the moment none of the four major carriers in the US are using common protocols and frequencies for G3 service and above. They may be using some frequencies in common, or some protocols in common, but to differentiate their services, they don't use common protocols. A side effect of this is that you can take a walk with three other people, each of you using a different provider's phone, and walk through almost any major metro area, and see different carriers signal levels fluctuating all over the place. It's nearly impossible to roam on other carriers services, and almost no-one is providing general coverage service outside of major metro areas. In some parts of the US, you are better off having an Iridium phone than anything from a cellular carrier.
Yes, each carrier is working hard to provide solid coverage in the metro areas, but it's not going to happen. The frequencies that provide the best reach into where the customer is are either already in use, or don't have sufficient capacity for high bandwidth. 700mhz may seem like a magic bullet, but remember that a TV channel has about enough bandwidth for 45 mbps, one way, and to spread that across 100 customers for a cell (or worse) means that no-one is going to see 500 kbps, or less than 60kB/s. To get higher throughput, you have to go to higher frequencies. And higher frequencies don't reach into buildings as well. Great coverage out on the street, perhaps, but that reflective surface on the window to keep the temperature down in the glass building does a serious number on signal reception.
And since 800mhz analog has been eliminated, there are a lot of towers across the US that it just didn't make economic sense to convert to digital service. That may start changing if the FCC mandates that the only way that they are going to open more spectrum is if there is broader distribution of coverage across the US. But I'm not going to hold my breath for that. I figure the likelyhood of that is right up there with the FCC mandating that US carriers all start using common protocols and allow users to use any new phone on the market with any carrier, at the phone's best transfer rate. I just don't see it happening.
From what I've seen that $500 will go to the profs, who will give a TA a $100 stipend to submit between 1 and 5 corrections and a review of the quality of the material. The TA will look for misuse of "its" and "it's", and submit one correction per week for a semester, in hopes of getting a bit more than $100, then find a generic review of the text that someone else has done (in another school possibly, or at least from another prof) and wordsmith the review to submit their own review.
Profs really don't have the time needed to review the books. Unless they are getting publish credit for the review, their time is almost completely committed to the publish or perish grind.
At the very least though, compiling a collection of text books that state school boards can look to and see what offerings are available, and compare them with the texts that they can allocate funds from their budgets for (meaning that their budgets do get to keep growing, when the idea of the Open Textbook is to save the community money) them to justify their position. And it's not like the publishers of the Open Textbooks are going to bey plying those board members to get them to commit to using the Open Textbooks as the commercial textbook publishers will.
Not sure that anyone at MIT would stoop so low as to use X10 modules for a dorm project. Somehow I would tend to expect them to design their own solution that wasn't so noisy, or prone to being affected by someone in the next room with an X10 timer, or lamp control pad.
I hold the view that this really is more along the lines of saying that there is not just one faith that involves god. If you allow that there are literally hundreds of christian sects, a couple of different Jewish and Islamic sects (each) there are at least three well recognized 'dwelling places' that are within 'My Father's house'.
If you look at what each faith teaches, you will find far more in common, than separate. Almost every faith recognizes both that killing is wrong, but sometimes necessary. Stealing from one another is almost always discouraged in one way or another, but very few discourage taking from those outside of the faith.
Who among us truly knows "My Father" well enough to say that those following what we think is a different path are not following the same god?
Personally I think that all religions are the first level of governance beyond the family. They give us a means of building a community. That community allows us to accomplish more than any of us as individuals can do. And those accomplishments build upon each other as our communities start working with each other.
But that's a personal view, and I'm well aware that it runs counter to the public statements of many religions. I don't claim not to be heretical to those religions. I don't claim to be closer to 'my God' or yours, or have a better fundamental understanding of how the world works in your mind than you do.
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So, have you asked "mainstream" developers why they don't have their steam games ported to Linux yet? Or is your category of 'shitty games' inclusive of all Steam games as well?
For Photography, work out your budget, figure out what you need for your style of taking pictures, and buy the best memory you can afford for your needs. If you can get by with class 4 or class 6 memory, great. If you find that you need class 10, try out some of the budget options noted above and see if they serve your needs.
For other uses, you may very well find that a slower card actually works better for you than a 'faster' card. Class 10 is great for streaming large volumes of data onto the card, but experience has shown in the microsd cards that if you need to do a lot of small file manipulations, read and write, etc. a class 4 may outperform a class 10 card. This is of interest to people doing cyanogen mod implementations running off of the sdcard, but is a completely different use case from a photographer shooting high res photos, or a videographer shooting HD video.
So I guess the question then is do I want to spend the premium on several memory cards, move the images off of them when I set up my 3-2-1 backups of the images and re-use them, or do I want to spend 10 or more times that to replace the camera I'm using with a camera with a bigger buffer?
If I'm already going to get the new camera for other reasons, that's one thing. Getting a camera because I want to save on SD cards seems counter-intuitive to me.
Likewise I'm more likely to take an older camera with me on vacation to shoot with, and carry a few extra high speed storage cards rather than run the risk of my new high end camera going swimming or taking a walk on me. Sure insurance may help me, but I'm a bit more comfortable with having something I am less concerned about being damaged if something goes wrong. But that's me. To each their own.
It's not exactly like this is news at all: http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/07/29/127235/koch-bros-study-finds-global-warming-is-real-and-man-made
I'm seeing a lot of partial solutions here. Both in what has been done, and in what is being proposed. The first thing you should be doing though has been mentioned, and that's talk with your insurance adjuster. At the very least you can find out what your liabilities are for various security measures, and possibly what measures will reduce your insurance rates.
Start by looking at what a thief is going to see as they look at how to enter the property. You may find the TV series from a few years back "it takes a thief" (or something like that) helpful in looking at the entire place for security problems. The doors and windows may be barred, but is it possible to gain access through the floor, or ceiling? Even a good barred door may be a problem if it's sheltered in such a way that you can't see if someone is working on the lock.
Part of that should also be looking at what you can do to improve deterrence. Signs, visible (if non-functional) alarm panels, even a steadily blinking light next to a sign labeled 'Alarm System' can be a deterrent.
And finally look for ways to monitor the approaches to the property both front and back, and if the building is stand alone, all around the building. You may want to use PIR along with IR Lighting to capture movement around the building.
If you are presuming that someone will break in after you've identified (and hopefully fixed) the issues from outside, then you're to the detect and defend internal options. High resolution cameras, covering the access points. Motion detection, door and window open sensors, glass break detectors, etc. These are intended to generate alerts and set up a means to capture what information you can about the thief. Tip, mark the door frame on either side of likely entrances with contrasting tape to form a crude (half foot or 20 cm increment) tape measure to give you a quick estimate of how tall someone passing by the entrance is.
Obviously you will need to decide for yourself how critical it is to secure different parts of your store. High value gem dealers usually place their entire stock in a vault of some sort overnight. If you know what the reason is behind the break-ins in the area (paying for drugs being common) you may be able to protect high value items by making it easier to steel a few low value items that you are less concerned about loosing.
Understand what the thief is working with. Unless you've been cased for a professional theft, in which case you're insurance carrier may have other suggestions for you, Most thefts are a snatch and grab variety, the thief is looking to get in, get something and get out. Be gone before the cops show up. If you know the cops will be there within 20 min, (talk with other businesses in the area that have experienced break-ins to find out if that estimate is even in the balpark) then you know how hard you have to make it for a thief to get at the valuables.
Also set policies (and follow them) for how to deal with elements of the store that are critical for operating. Assume that a thief can get the cash register, all cash within the store, and possibly your computers in the store. Does someone have a spare cash register, and operating cash for the day that they can bring in at the start of the day if you need to get going while making repairs? Is there sufficient spare stock in an off-site storage to get up and running the next business day, or are you going to be waiting a week for your suppliers to restock? Is the customer information on your systems at work in a secure system? Do you have off site backups of your inventory and books? Have you a policy of depositing all cash over and above what you absolutely have to have for daily operations on a nightly basis? Do you have multiple known locations where you can make those deposits so that if construction makes your usual after hours depository unavailable you can still make your deposit. Have you tested your off site backup solution to confirm that if your systems up and left, or a vandal cam in and drove a pick-ax
Are you seeing the same photos of users of this implant as I am?
Or did you read the informative article where it states: "Specifically the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System includes a small video camera, transmitter mounted on a pair of eyeglasses, video processing unit (VPU) and an implanted artificial retina."?
..."Always listen to experts. They will tell you what can't be done, and why. Then you can go and do it anyway."
I'm not saying that any or all of the comments above are from experts. Nor am I saying that this "drive" will work either. I will say that If this drive works, a large proportion of the 'experts' are likely to say that it doesn't and that the evidence to the contrary is faked ("Don't show me a video of this working in a vacuum, you have to show me in person!" Sounds like you're offering to pay for a couple of people, yourself included, to go to space, do a space walk, to observe this working. Somehow I don't expect that will happen.) Initially a small number will allow that it's possible that this may work, but that they don't understand enough about the system to explain it. And there will be a few who say "I'm glad I put some money behind that project, if it was a wash, oh well. But it worked, now I'm flush."
As for me, it doesn't work with what I know of physics, but that doesn't mean my understanding of physics is complete. In fact I know it is not complete. If it works, great. If it doesn't, well there is likely to be another idea around the bend, similarly unlikely to be effective. I expect we'll give some of them a try too. And who knows, something might stick to the walls.
I would think that the problem here is that the people who this information would potentially protect, are unlikely to be people who would read the report to begin with.
The real beneficiaries of a report like this from Cisco is the firewall manager who needs to explain to the management team why the corporate firewall needs to be blocking online shopping sites, but he or she has been advised not to remind management that in most cases corporate productivity will probably go up if the employees are not shopping at Amazon or B&N when they should be working on whatever their day to day job is supposed to be.
Probably, but you just know that PC World will be flooded with articles about how the new Graphene interface based phones will take over the business cell phone market, and Endgadget will have a dozen articles by 2 authors about how Apple had developed it first and how the Apple products being released into the market have a much slicker implementation.
People of course will be dropping both editions into the toilet.
...by the company who's software had the bug.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/01/21/montreal-dawson-college-hack-hamed-al-khabaz.html
Not an update - shool still behaving like spoiled children.
And yes he probably could have handled it better.
As a developer I'd really rather know if the app that I was developing could possibly be used in ways that it's not supposed to be used. I.e. the discovered vulnerability. He reported the vulnerability, and was told that it had been fixed.
Frankly I want to know for myself if the vulnerability was fixed, rather than just relying on someone else's say so before I release an app that I'm developing that may be used in unexpected and undesirable ways.
That said, the test should have been performed with the oversight of the people responsible for the system being tested. Better it should have been tested against a duplicate of the system as a testing environment, preferably with valid but unrelated data. Then tested against the real data system if the test system passes. Again only with administrative oversight.
Finally, an NDA for such a situation should be worded so that the NDA applies while the reported bug is being patched and has been made available to schools and businesses using the system and a reasonable time following that availability to give the admins time to test and deploy the patched system. Once those events have happened, the NDA should no longer be applicable. After all the vendor has addressed the flaw. Additionally the NDA should have an absolute expiration date giving the vendor the incentive to actually fix the problem.
My other concern with this behavior is that as a developer I expect people reporting that they have fixed the identified problem to ask that the person reporting the problem in the first place, follow up and confirm that the flaw is not there any more, and advise them of any other problems that may be detected. That would be an invitation to do exactly what the student did. Check the fix and look for other problems.
That said, those are techniques in the open source community. In the closed source community, it wouldn't surprise me if the vendor was OK with fixing the original reported flaw, but didn't want to learn about anything else, and asked the school to watch out for the behavior that might indicate the student was looking for other flaws, rather than seeking them out themselves and fixing them ahead of time.
Oddly enough, the old Russian maxim applies here. One does not travel at warp, warp travels you.
It's called a 3d printer with PLA, and a technique called casting. Heck since one sode of this will be flat (ok, two sides,) you could probably do this with ABS plastic. Sure you need a software model, but you cnd probably frough one up fast enough in SketchUp, Blender, or even Corel Draw, simply knowing the requirements for mounting to the shaft and mounting pedals to it. And you'llprobalby have to tap the holes for securing each, but so long as your 3d Printer can handle the dimensions of a crank arm, you're golden.
Cast em out of aluminum, brush and laquor them, have fun with the custom cranks. Or if you're less concerned about weight, looks, durability, etc. cast em out of lead, gold, silver, platinum, use the abs print as a core for a carbon fiber build. Use the model to CNC them out of a block of stainless. Build a small mass driven generator into them and add LED's and an arduino to show of pretty lights, present a message as you're riding down the street, whatever.
I'm going to hazard that someone is holding the Nokia stock value up on the belief that the IP collection they supposedly are sitting on (patents including standards essential patents.)
I agree that Ballmer should rate a dishonorable mention though. But other than the news this past week of how Windows stands compared to other OS' on all platforms, I haven't been hearing all that much about him this past year.
...Google will write that app for the Windows Phone platform when they consider the platform to have enough adopters to make the effort worthwhile. Perhaps they should start with a Symbian based client. Follow that up with a WebOS based one as well.
I work about 45 feet underground and the only cell service available is through a carrier that I won't use. Should my company ever provide me with a cell phone that may change, but I'm not expecting that upgrade any time soon.
I rarely if ever use skype, whether at work, or at home. At work it would not punch through the corporate firewall, and at home I don't have sufficient need to use it to communicate with family or friends as most can reach me via other platforms.
At work I actually have two phones at my desk, one for day to day calls, and another for bridge lines that I need to monitor. Some of the managers around here have 3 phones on their desks to give them that capability for multiple bridge lines, and also to have a line available to contact their managers for issues that need their attention.
The firewall pretty much blocks all forms of VPN, IM and SIP that can't run over http through a proxy. All such traffic is continuously monitored and content which violates corporate policy may subject the employee to disciplinary processes including (and not limited to) termination.
These limitations would be imposed on me if I were using a corporate Laptop or PC at home as well, as I would be required to establish a vpn to work and all my network traffic wold be required to go through that connection.
I suspect that this is not unusual for people who work in the financial and trading sectors. At the very least it is an effort being made by the corporations involved to prevent themselves from being subject to penalties related to insider trading. I also suspect that several companies have even harsher limits on what their employees can do across the internet simply because companies are looking to protect customer and owner assets that may be affected by a variety of black hat hacker attacks as well as reducing the potential for damage caused by disgruntled employees (or former employees.)
Before complaining that this is harsh, and hardly the usual treatment technology users should expect, I have to say that I happen to like where I work, the people I work with, and most of the people I work for. I like most of our customers and most of our stock holders. I can say that this is not unusual in the group I work with, as this is the first company I've worked with where I've had more people leave the group through retirement than through 'better' job offers elsewhere. No, things are not perfect, but on the whole, things are not bad.
...the internet is based on open protocols. They can look up the specs, read the descriptions of the protocols, write test software, and write software all day long to support their needs. I think we should encourage all police state advocates to write their own software. Unless they have more important things to do, like stop burglars, capture pickpockets, etc. It's Canada after all, not exactly a major site for the burgeoning drug war the US is hemorrhaging money into.
He points out in the comments on his blog post that he has not tested the font completely on Windows browsers. Apparently different browsers in Windows are rendering the font differently though, and he's working on the issue when he has time available. A specific complaint was the appearance that the font is faded at the top for some readers.
The problem very well may be render-er specific though. The assumption that not all browsers on windows are using the windows font rendering feature. I suspect that this is the case for people reporting similar issues with PDF's using the font as well. Unless the PDF is of scanned documents, the rendering of text is done in the viewer rather than at the source of the text.
Something that I don't thing got much play in the article is that each of the 64 Pi boards has a SOC processor that in addition to the general purpose processor also includes a 48 core processor optimized for graphics. And yes in http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1967 they note that there is already code that can use those processors for graphics. I have little doubt that someone looking at the code can port one of the gpu processing libraries to make use of these processors for other numerically intensive purposes.
So don't forget to add in sufficient video processing to provide 3072 cores of processing equivalence to your rig. I suspect that you can figure out how to do that as you've already calculated what you feel is the equivalent general processing equivalent (or better) for your sample system. I'm not sure that the resulting system would still fit in a 1u case, but it might.
...my new over-priced disposable hardware source. Of course if I want disposable hardware, I'm pretty sure I can find it fr less on e-bay, but sometimes you just want something that people will think is pretty.
Go where you've made the experience available.
For the past decade, and then some, all entry level tech support jobs have been being farmed out because it was cheaper to contract it to someone earning minimum wage who could read a script, and got no benefits, or to someone working some place where minimum wage was even less than it is here in the US. So all of the people who have had the opportunity to learn your products from the ground up, are either have no confidence that you are looking for them (when is the last time you hired a contract support tech in house to provide that support for your customers and granted them benefits?) or have been job hopping in another country where all anyone gives them is a script to follow. (scripts don't tend to engender creative problem solving.)
Likewise for developers. Sure you can find companies that hire developers right out of school, or even before school is out. But if your business has been moving all of it's development work to places where you're paying $50 a month instead of $50 an hour, and you hire 40 of those developers to try to do as much as the one developer you replaced, why on earth would any developer even consider working for you in the states?
At some point it will depend on your definition of efficiency.
At the moment none of the four major carriers in the US are using common protocols and frequencies for G3 service and above. They may be using some frequencies in common, or some protocols in common, but to differentiate their services, they don't use common protocols. A side effect of this is that you can take a walk with three other people, each of you using a different provider's phone, and walk through almost any major metro area, and see different carriers signal levels fluctuating all over the place. It's nearly impossible to roam on other carriers services, and almost no-one is providing general coverage service outside of major metro areas. In some parts of the US, you are better off having an Iridium phone than anything from a cellular carrier.
Yes, each carrier is working hard to provide solid coverage in the metro areas, but it's not going to happen. The frequencies that provide the best reach into where the customer is are either already in use, or don't have sufficient capacity for high bandwidth. 700mhz may seem like a magic bullet, but remember that a TV channel has about enough bandwidth for 45 mbps, one way, and to spread that across 100 customers for a cell (or worse) means that no-one is going to see 500 kbps, or less than 60kB/s. To get higher throughput, you have to go to higher frequencies. And higher frequencies don't reach into buildings as well. Great coverage out on the street, perhaps, but that reflective surface on the window to keep the temperature down in the glass building does a serious number on signal reception.
And since 800mhz analog has been eliminated, there are a lot of towers across the US that it just didn't make economic sense to convert to digital service. That may start changing if the FCC mandates that the only way that they are going to open more spectrum is if there is broader distribution of coverage across the US. But I'm not going to hold my breath for that. I figure the likelyhood of that is right up there with the FCC mandating that US carriers all start using common protocols and allow users to use any new phone on the market with any carrier, at the phone's best transfer rate. I just don't see it happening.
From what I've seen that $500 will go to the profs, who will give a TA a $100 stipend to submit between 1 and 5 corrections and a review of the quality of the material. The TA will look for misuse of "its" and "it's", and submit one correction per week for a semester, in hopes of getting a bit more than $100, then find a generic review of the text that someone else has done (in another school possibly, or at least from another prof) and wordsmith the review to submit their own review.
Profs really don't have the time needed to review the books. Unless they are getting publish credit for the review, their time is almost completely committed to the publish or perish grind.
At the very least though, compiling a collection of text books that state school boards can look to and see what offerings are available, and compare them with the texts that they can allocate funds from their budgets for (meaning that their budgets do get to keep growing, when the idea of the Open Textbook is to save the community money) them to justify their position. And it's not like the publishers of the Open Textbooks are going to bey plying those board members to get them to commit to using the Open Textbooks as the commercial textbook publishers will.
Not sure that anyone at MIT would stoop so low as to use X10 modules for a dorm project. Somehow I would tend to expect them to design their own solution that wasn't so noisy, or prone to being affected by someone in the next room with an X10 timer, or lamp control pad.
I hold the view that this really is more along the lines of saying that there is not just one faith that involves god. If you allow that there are literally hundreds of christian sects, a couple of different Jewish and Islamic sects (each) there are at least three well recognized 'dwelling places' that are within 'My Father's house'.
If you look at what each faith teaches, you will find far more in common, than separate. Almost every faith recognizes both that killing is wrong, but sometimes necessary. Stealing from one another is almost always discouraged in one way or another, but very few discourage taking from those outside of the faith.
Who among us truly knows "My Father" well enough to say that those following what we think is a different path are not following the same god?
Personally I think that all religions are the first level of governance beyond the family. They give us a means of building a community. That community allows us to accomplish more than any of us as individuals can do. And those accomplishments build upon each other as our communities start working with each other.
But that's a personal view, and I'm well aware that it runs counter to the public statements of many religions. I don't claim not to be heretical to those religions. I don't claim to be closer to 'my God' or yours, or have a better fundamental understanding of how the world works in your mind than you do.