And it's ALWAYS faster on an EDGE network than on a "3G" network, unless I am tethering. But, on the phone, TFA has merit. It's unfortunate that the SYNC is such an idiot's phone, with no user capability to choose network, cell, or whatever. I get coverage from two cells at my house and the phone is always stuck on the weaker one. With my old MPX220, I could force-select the stronger one. Ugh...
I am running way behind! My home video server only has 1920GB of storage via 8x320GB drives in a Raid-5... but I know what you mean. In college, I put four 1.6GB drives in my box, and did a Linux Stripe to 6.4GB, and that was hot shit back then. We stored lots of CDs in that new-fangled MP3 format on there.
Listen kids, there is something that you have to understand. If you want to roll out telecom to everyone in a nation, there are places where you are going to have to spend $500k to cover 10 customers, especially in places like rural South Africa where there might be one or two people living in a given square mile. That is expensive, and you can't charge them $10/mo for service because you'll never recoup the investment. That's just the way it is. Get over it.
I keep my bread in the freezer. You'd be surprised how little time it takes for a slice of bread to thaw. Usually, by the time I get done making the sandwich, it's defrosted enough to eat. I seldom eat at home, so it's important for that $5 loaf of bread to last as long as possible.
Yeah, I think you mean "skewering" the local female population heh...
Seriously, genetic diversity cannot be helped by a society that favors monogamous, life-long relationships between couples. The most genetic diversity is achieved when women have children by as many different men as possible throughout their lifetimes.
Maybe now people will quit being fat-ass smokers and start taking care of themselves. Why is it fair in the least for the healthiest people to be forced to pay for the health care of irresponsible people?
This is no different than charging smokers more for life insurance. If you engage in irresponsible behavior, you deserve to pay for it.
Yes, we are doomed. The only reason we are doomed is because we keep reproducing to a population level that our environment cannot sustain. The Earth can handle about 3 Billion people, and no more. The fact that we have more than twice that many only hastens our demise.
What is going to happen is that we are going to run out of natural resources, and there will be a War. This War will either destroy all life on this planet as we know it, or it will cull the Human population to that which can be sustained. I am thinking it will be the former, but who knows?
Right after installing this patch, windows crashed with an "unspecified" error, and then the next time I tried to run FSX, it was magically no longer activated. Not only that, but the Windows Installer is unable to repair, remove, or re-install FSX (or anything else).
So, now I have to reinstall windows, see if I can get someone on the phone in India in the middle of the night to re-activate windows, then do it all over again when I re-install FSX. Great.
... except that the cell phone company knows whenever your cell phone rings, and with E911, they know exactly where you are. So, they can just bill you automagically based on a "reasonable" estimate of the number of people within earshot of your phone, the volume setting of the ringer, and so on...
So, if you're at Starbucks at 8 in the morning standing on line when your phone rings... you'll pay a lot more than $8 for your damn latte...
Makers of consumer gadgets very often price their non-warranty repair and maintenance services based on the perceived will to comply with the social status surrounding their device. This is why it costs so much a) to buy anything "Apple" in the first place and b) to keep it running smooth (assuming it ever did so in the first place). The "Cost of Social Compliance" concept is nothing new and is usually first-year business school fodder for their revolving-door MBA programs.
Some devices, you'd just throw away when the battery died rather than pay to replace it, and others, like something from Apple, have a high social reward attached to them (praise from friends and strangers, etc), and therefore they can extract more from you to keep them running...
I modeled surface plasmons on PEC surfaces in 1999 using dirac-delta plane-waves and FDTD analysis. In fact, I think there has been a lot of research in using physical optics methods to better enhance numerical modeling of EM scattering and surface waves. The military has been conducting research in RCS reduction by using these methods to characterize how incident pulse radars set up radiating fields on surfaces.
Absolutely nothing new here. Most of this stuff is in Junior-level EM texts.
For this to work, one would have to completely seal their home and make a faraday cage out of it. Any kind of hole, slot, or notch, would radiate like an antenna, at least at some frequency, so it would be impractical, not to mention impossible, to make a home completely snoop-proof.
Kinda makes you wonder why nobody bothers to check up on these things before sinking $600 on a device. I'd want to know that my iToy worked on my PC *before* committing..
While all of you morons were waiting on long lines for your iBrick, I was out listening to non-DRMed MP3's that I just copied to the flash card in my A-707 w/o having to use some god-awful buggy and inefficient middleware app.
I looked at an iPhone and quite honestly, there's nothing special about it except that mac weenies think it's a status symbol
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And it's ALWAYS faster on an EDGE network than on a "3G" network, unless I am tethering. But, on the phone, TFA has merit. It's unfortunate that the SYNC is such an idiot's phone, with no user capability to choose network, cell, or whatever. I get coverage from two cells at my house and the phone is always stuck on the weaker one. With my old MPX220, I could force-select the stronger one. Ugh...
So what happens when my driver is driving and I'm napping in the back seat on the way to work?
I am running way behind! My home video server only has 1920GB of storage via 8x320GB drives in a Raid-5... but I know what you mean. In college, I put four 1.6GB drives in my box, and did a Linux Stripe to 6.4GB, and that was hot shit back then. We stored lots of CDs in that new-fangled MP3 format on there.
Yes, folks, because that's where you go when you REALLY just HAVE to get it DONE!
My sweetwater filter pump goes way smaller than 15,000 microns and was $80...
http://www.msrcorp.com/filters/sweet_system.asp
Listen kids, there is something that you have to understand. If you want to roll out telecom to everyone in a nation, there are places where you are going to have to spend $500k to cover 10 customers, especially in places like rural South Africa where there might be one or two people living in a given square mile. That is expensive, and you can't charge them $10/mo for service because you'll never recoup the investment. That's just the way it is. Get over it.
You mean causes like making sure people actually pay back the money they promise to pay back when they borrow it? I don't see a problem with that.
Fiber To The Toilet
Of course, it's a full-duplex connection, and it can connect with two nodes, your router, and your... uhh... fiber exit portal.
I keep my bread in the freezer. You'd be surprised how little time it takes for a slice of bread to thaw. Usually, by the time I get done making the sandwich, it's defrosted enough to eat. I seldom eat at home, so it's important for that $5 loaf of bread to last as long as possible.
I just got a popup like this from Pringles!
Once you pop, you can't stop... argh!
ok, yeah, that was lame...
Yeah, I think you mean "skewering" the local female population heh...
Seriously, genetic diversity cannot be helped by a society that favors monogamous, life-long relationships between couples. The most genetic diversity is achieved when women have children by as many different men as possible throughout their lifetimes.
Maybe now people will quit being fat-ass smokers and start taking care of themselves. Why is it fair in the least for the healthiest people to be forced to pay for the health care of irresponsible people?
This is no different than charging smokers more for life insurance. If you engage in irresponsible behavior, you deserve to pay for it.
Bush fired a few Attorneys. Clinton fired ALL of them.
China and the US are also the top Carbon Dioxide emitters! OMFG!
Of course not. We already know factually why the sky is blue. It is due to Rayleigh scattering.
Yes, we are doomed. The only reason we are doomed is because we keep reproducing to a population level that our environment cannot sustain. The Earth can handle about 3 Billion people, and no more. The fact that we have more than twice that many only hastens our demise.
What is going to happen is that we are going to run out of natural resources, and there will be a War. This War will either destroy all life on this planet as we know it, or it will cull the Human population to that which can be sustained. I am thinking it will be the former, but who knows?
Right after installing this patch, windows crashed with an "unspecified" error, and then the next time I tried to run FSX, it was magically no longer activated. Not only that, but the Windows Installer is unable to repair, remove, or re-install FSX (or anything else).
So, now I have to reinstall windows, see if I can get someone on the phone in India in the middle of the night to re-activate windows, then do it all over again when I re-install FSX. Great.
Thanks a lot, assholes.
I wonder if the spammers are hiring Indian firms to create the bogus hotmail accounts.
... except that the cell phone company knows whenever your cell phone rings, and with E911, they know exactly where you are. So, they can just bill you automagically based on a "reasonable" estimate of the number of people within earshot of your phone, the volume setting of the ringer, and so on...
So, if you're at Starbucks at 8 in the morning standing on line when your phone rings... you'll pay a lot more than $8 for your damn latte...
Makers of consumer gadgets very often price their non-warranty repair and maintenance services based on the perceived will to comply with the social status surrounding their device. This is why it costs so much a) to buy anything "Apple" in the first place and b) to keep it running smooth (assuming it ever did so in the first place). The "Cost of Social Compliance" concept is nothing new and is usually first-year business school fodder for their revolving-door MBA programs.
Some devices, you'd just throw away when the battery died rather than pay to replace it, and others, like something from Apple, have a high social reward attached to them (praise from friends and strangers, etc), and therefore they can extract more from you to keep them running...
I modeled surface plasmons on PEC surfaces in 1999 using dirac-delta plane-waves and FDTD analysis. In fact, I think there has been a lot of research in using physical optics methods to better enhance numerical modeling of EM scattering and surface waves. The military has been conducting research in RCS reduction by using these methods to characterize how incident pulse radars set up radiating fields on surfaces.
Absolutely nothing new here. Most of this stuff is in Junior-level EM texts.
For this to work, one would have to completely seal their home and make a faraday cage out of it. Any kind of hole, slot, or notch, would radiate like an antenna, at least at some frequency, so it would be impractical, not to mention impossible, to make a home completely snoop-proof.
Suffice it to say that a Lieutenant is not exactly going to be high on the "need to know" list.
This is a hoax.. no aliens at Roswell..
Kinda makes you wonder why nobody bothers to check up on these things before sinking $600 on a device. I'd want to know that my iToy worked on my PC *before* committing..
While all of you morons were waiting on long lines for your iBrick, I was out listening to non-DRMed MP3's that I just copied to the flash card in my A-707 w/o having to use some god-awful buggy and inefficient middleware app.
I looked at an iPhone and quite honestly, there's nothing special about it except that mac weenies think it's a status symbol