Maybe he can buy/rent one from a high-tech company. With all the layoffs in the past couple of years, there are probably lots sitting around collecting dust. (heh... joke inside of a joke)
That raises an interesting question. Let's say if you abandon a room in your house. After a few years it would start to collect dust. How about if you abandon a clean room? Does it collect dust?
Is it just me, or are we heading back to medieval times, when the monetary system was ONLY coins ? (at least in Europe) (and besides the occasional duck traded for a bottle of booze, or whatever)
Remember that RUN/STOP Key? Why the hell did it require a harder whack than the other keys to function properly? e.g. you could hit the 'H' key with 1 N of force to type an 'H', but you had to hit the RUN/STOP key with like 5 N of force to get it to stop a program. Mechanically, they seemed like the same key.
The server is awfully slow, especially with the big graphic on it. Here's the almost-full article: ---
The index
Rank Country Note 1 Finland 0,50 - Iceland 0,50 - Norway 0,50 - Netherlands 0,50 5 Canada 0,75 6 Ireland 1,00 7 Germany 1,50 - Portugal 1,50 - Sweden 1,50 10 Denmark 3,00 11 France 3,25 12 Australia 3,50 - Belgium 3,50 14 Slovenia 4,00 15 Costa Rica 4,25 - Switzerland 4,25 17 United States 4,75 18 Hong Kong 4,83 19 Greece 5,00 20 Ecuador 5,50 21 Benin 6,00 - United Kingdom 6,00 - Uruguay 6,00 24 Chili 6,50 - Hungary 6,50 26 South Africa 7,50 - Austria 7,50 - Japan 7,50 29 Spain 7,75 ---truncated due to lameness filter--- 130 Irak 79,00 131 Viet Nam 81,25 132 Eritrea 83,67 133 Laos 89,00 134 Cuba 90,25 135 Bhutan 90,75 136 Turkmenistan 91,50 137 Burma 96,83 138 China 97,00 139 North Korea 97,50
--
Reporters Without Borders is publishing the first worldwide press freedom index
The first worldwide index of press freedom has some surprises for Western democracies. The United States ranks below Costa Rica and Italy scores lower than Benin. The five countries with least press freedom are North Korea, China, Burma, Turkmenistan and Bhutan.
Surprises among Western democracies : US below Costa Rica and Italy below Benin
Reporters Without Borders is publishing for the first time a worldwide index of countries according to their respect for press freedom. It also shows that such freedom is under threat everywhere, with the 20 bottom-ranked countries drawn from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. The situation in especially bad in Asia, which contains the four worst offenders - North Korea, China, Burma, Turkmenistan and Bhutan.
The top end of the list shows that rich countries have no monopoly of press freedom. Costa and Benin are examples of how growth of a free press does not just depend on a country's material prosperity.
The index was drawn up by asking journalists, researchers and legal experts to answer 50 questions about the whole range of press freedom violations (such as murders or arrests of journalists, censorship, pressure, state monopolies in various fields, punishment of press law offences and regulation of the media). The final list includes 139 countries. The others were not included in the absence of reliable information.
In the worst-ranked countries, press freedom is a dead letter and independent newspapers do not exist. The only voice heard is of media tightly controlled or monitored by the government. The very few independent journalists are constantly harassed, imprisoned or forced into exile by the authorities. The foreign media is banned or allowed in very small doses, always closely monitored.
Right at the top of the list four countries share first place - Finland, Iceland, Norway and the Netherlands. These northern European states scrupulously respect press freedom in their own countries but also speak up for it elsewhere, for example recently in Eritrea and Zimbabwe. The highest-scoring country outside Europe is Canada, which comes fifth.
Some countries with democratically-elected governments are way down in the index - such as Colombia (114th) and Bangladesh (118th). In these countries, armed rebel movements, militias or political parties constantly endanger the lives of journalists. The state fails to do all it could to protect them and fight the immunity very often enjoyed by those responsible for such violence.
Costa Rica better placed than the United States
The poor ranking of the United States (17th) is mainly because of the number of journalists arrested or imprisoned there. Arrests are often because they refuse to reveal their sources in court. Also, since the 11 September attacks, several journalists have been arrested for crossing security lines at some official buildings.
The highest-ranked country of the South is Costa Rica, in 15th position. This Central American nation is traditionally the continent's best performer in terms of press freedom. In February 2002, it ceased to be one of the 17 Latin American states that still give prison sentences to those found guilty of "insulting" public officials. The murder in July 2001 year of journalist Parmenio Medina was an exception in the history of the Costa Rican media.
Cuba, the last dictatorship in Latin America, came 134th and is the only country in the region where there is no diversity of news and journalists are routinely imprisoned. In Haiti (106th), journalists are targeted by informal militias whose actions are covered by the government.
Italy gets bad marks in Europe
The 15 member-countries of the European Union (EU) all score well except for Italy (40th), where news diversity is under serious threat. Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is turning up the pressure on the state-owned television stations, has named his henchmen to help run them and continues to combine his job as head of government with being boss of a privately-owned media group. The imprisonment of journalist Stefano Surace, convicted of press offences from 30 years ago, as well as the monitoring of journalists, searches, unjustified legal summonses and confiscation of equipment, are all responsible for the country's low ranking.
France, in 11th place overall, comes only 8th among EU countries because of several disturbing measures endangering the protection of journalists' sources and because of police interrogation of a number of journalists in recent months.
Among those states hoping to join the EU, Turkey (99th) is very poorly placed. Despite the reform efforts of its government, aimed at easing entry into the EU, many journalists are still being given prison sentences and the media is regularly censored. Press freedom is especially under siege in the southeastern part of the country.
Elsewhere in Europe, such as Belarus (124th), Russia (121st) and the former Soviet republics, it is still difficult to work as a journalist and several have been murdered or imprisoned. Grigory Pasko, jailed since December 2001 in the Vladivostok region of Russia, was given a four-year sentence for publishing pictures of the Russian Navy pouring liquid radioactive waste into the Sea of Japan.
The Middle East and Israel's ambivalent position
No Arab country is among the top 50. Lebanon only makes 56th place and the press freedom situation in the region is not encouraging. In Iraq (130th) and Syria (126th), the state uses every means to control the media and stifle any dissenting voice. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein especially has set his country's media the sole task of relaying his regime's propaganda. In Libya (129th) and Tunisia (128th), no criticism of Col Muammar Kadhafi or President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali is tolerated.
The political weakening of the Palestinian Authority (82nd) means it has made few assaults on press freedom. However, Islamic fundamentalist opposition media have been closed, several attempts made to intimidate and attack local and foreign journalists and many subjects remain taboo. The aim is to convey a united image of the Palestinian people and to conceal aspects such a demonstrations of support for attacks on Israel.
The attitude of Israel (92nd) towards press freedom is ambivalent. Despite strong pressure on state-owned TV and radio, the government respects the local media's freedom of expression. However, in the West Bank and Gaza, Reporters Without Borders has recorded a large number of violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which guarantees press freedom and which Israel has signed. Since the start of the Israeli army's incursions into Palestinian towns and cities in March 2002, very many journalists have been roughed up, threatened, arrested, banned from moving around, targeted by gunfire, wounded or injured, had their press cards withdrawn or been deported.
Good and bad examples in Africa
Eritrea (132nd) and Zimbabwe (122nd) are the most repressive countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The entire privately-owned press in Eritrea was banned by the government in September 2001 and 18 journalists are currently imprisoned there. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is notable for his especially harsh attitude to the foreign and opposition media.
At the other end of the spectrum, Benin is in 21st place despite being classified by the UN Development Programme as one of the world 15 poorest countries. Other African states, such as South Africa (26th), Mali (43rd), Namibia (31st) and Senegal (47th), have genuine press freedom too.
I've wondered about similar things to this. I have a scanner, that I used to scan my signature. I keep this as a JPG file. Whenever I receive a fax on my computer that I need to sign and send back, I often just open a graphic editor, copy and paste my signature to the fax, and send the fax back. Is this legally binding?
If so, does that mean someone else can just scan my signature, and do the same thing?
BTW, I'm in Canada, so a Canadian legal response/idea would be a bonus.
Dave
Re:What (cool thing) could you do w/multiple devic
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Tackling AGP 8X
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I have a ATI All-in-Wonder (AIW) 128 Pro, so it has the TV tuner built-in. I'd like to upgrade to a Radeon AND keep the TV tuner. But the Radeon AIW costs a lot more than the Radeon non-AIW. Therefore, I would ideally like to have:
1. my current AIW 128 Pro, just to use the TV-tuner. 2. a Radeon 8500, without the TV tuner.
But unfortunately, my system doesn't allow two AGP cards.
This guy has been plagiarizing for a while, I looked at a few of his posts,
did a Google search on the text of his post, and found that this isn't the
first example of his cut and paste job.
If he really is at Imperial College, he'd know that plagiarizing without giving credit is frowned upon in the academic community, and would probably get you expelled (if you're a student) or demoted (if you're staff).
BTW, he goes by different names, usually those with the word "Physics" in it.
Oh yeah, and yesterday's article was not about just cell phones. 3G networks allow mobile terminals like your laptop, PDA, wristwatch phone, Star Trek communicator, whatever...
Yesterday's article was about a mobile network. That is, at least one of the devices has the possibility of moving, which introduces fading. Fading is a serious impairment to the signal reception. Also, that mobile network has the possibility of multiple access interference (other users), another serious impairment to received signal to noise ratio.
Today's article (this one) is about two fixed wireless devices, separated by maybe a couple of feet (see the picture in the article). No fading is involved and no interference from other users is apparent.
Dave
Total capacity will be low
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19 megabits on 3G
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· Score: 4, Informative
A couple of points about this technique:
a.) I'd call this a 4G demonstration. Maximum data rates in the 3G specs/proposals (WCDMA, cdma2000, etc...) are much lower than 19 Mbps. e.g. 2-3 Mbps. e.g. By transmitting at 19 Mbps, they're not using WCDMA protocols.
b.) In a multiple Tx configuration, you're increasing the amount of interference. With 4 Tx antennas, the amount of interference seen by other users just went up by a factor of 4. This means your overall capacity just dropped by a factor of 4.
c.) Tranmitting at a higher data rate in WCDMA limits the number of other users you can have on the channel. You can only have a few users in a WCDMA cell transmitting at near maximum data rate.
I'd have to agree. I did bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering. Other than the occasional abbreviation in latin, I hardly ever see anything in latin, or hear of anything in latin.
Sure, some things might have their derivations in latin, but you have two choices:
1. learn an occasional new word, that just happens to have its derivations in latin.
2. learn an entirely new language (latin), and expanding your vocabulary of that language to 100s if not 1000s of words, so that you don't occasionally have to do #1, above.
I picked #1.
But hey, I learned a related language that's even more important: Iay ancay peaksay igpay atinlay!
Does anyone ever read the article before commenting on it?
Most of the commenting people here so far fail to understand what's being proposed. Here's a quote from the article:
Multiple devices with different power requirements can recharge all at once on a single pad (the size can vary): When equipment is placed on the pad (at any angle), it communicates its power requirements through its exposed contacts, and then the pad's hardware sends the right voltage to the right contact points. When a device moves, the pad reconfigures itself instantly.
2. How does your 460 W power supply translate into 1100 W? If it's a 460 W power supply, it uses 460 W. Where does the 1100 come from?
3. Here in Canada, most houses/apartments use a 115/120 V circuit with 15 Amps circuit breakers on receptacles. 25 and 30 A circuits are used for large appliances & electric heaters.
Yes, we're seen it in our Linux/Win network too. I try to print from Win NT or Win 2000, the print job goes out to the Samba print spooler. The little printer icon appears in the Win taskbar. I try to double-click on the little printer icon, and the usual printer pop-up window comes up. However, the window says something like, "trying to initialize printer xxxxx". Then after a minute or two it times out. Therefore, I never see the print job in the window. So I can't delete it. Even though the printer icon can't contact the printer, the print jobs usually work.
I just figured it was a setup bug in our network. Maybe it's a Samba bug instead.
Here's a great site if you just want to learn a little more about genetic algorithms and how they work. The Java applets on the pages are kinda interesting too.
If anything, I'd say that high school to university is a bigger transition than bachelors to masters. Which would make it even more important to not take a year off after high school.
BTW - who said it was a bachelor/master of science? In the case of some masters degrees, e.g. MBA, you're far better off having some industry/corporate experience before you start it.
Slashdot Mirror
NBTel is known to many telecom engineers in Canada to have (or at least in the early/mid 90s) one of the most advanced phone systems in Canada.
Dave
Maybe he can buy/rent one from a high-tech company. With all the layoffs in the past couple of years, there are probably lots sitting around collecting dust. (heh... joke inside of a joke)
That raises an interesting question. Let's say if you abandon a room in your house. After a few years it would start to collect dust. How about if you abandon a clean room? Does it collect dust?
Dave
Ummm... unless he's a Smurf, he's probably gonna have to build something a little bigger, so that he can fit in there and work on it.
On the other hand, I have visions of someone trying to build a satellitte in a bottle... kinda like those ship in a bottle deals.
Dave
Is it just me, or are we heading back to medieval times, when the monetary system was ONLY coins ? (at least in Europe) (and besides the occasional duck traded for a bottle of booze, or whatever)
Dave
Remember that RUN/STOP Key? Why the hell did it require a harder whack than the other keys to function properly? e.g. you could hit the 'H' key with 1 N of force to type an 'H', but you had to hit the RUN/STOP key with like 5 N of force to get it to stop a program. Mechanically, they seemed like the same key.
Dave
which country ?
The server is awfully slow, especially with the big graphic on it. Here's the almost-full article:
---
The index
Rank Country Note
1 Finland 0,50
- Iceland 0,50
- Norway 0,50
- Netherlands 0,50
5 Canada 0,75
6 Ireland 1,00
7 Germany 1,50
- Portugal 1,50
- Sweden 1,50
10 Denmark 3,00
11 France 3,25
12 Australia 3,50
- Belgium 3,50
14 Slovenia 4,00
15 Costa Rica 4,25
- Switzerland 4,25
17 United States 4,75
18 Hong Kong 4,83
19 Greece 5,00
20 Ecuador 5,50
21 Benin 6,00
- United Kingdom 6,00
- Uruguay 6,00
24 Chili 6,50
- Hungary 6,50
26 South Africa 7,50
- Austria 7,50
- Japan 7,50
29 Spain 7,75
---truncated due to lameness filter---
130 Irak 79,00
131 Viet Nam 81,25
132 Eritrea 83,67
133 Laos 89,00
134 Cuba 90,25
135 Bhutan 90,75
136 Turkmenistan 91,50
137 Burma 96,83
138 China 97,00
139 North Korea 97,50
--
Reporters Without Borders is publishing the first worldwide press freedom index
The first worldwide index of press freedom has some surprises for Western democracies. The United States ranks below Costa Rica and Italy scores lower than Benin. The five countries with least press freedom are North Korea, China, Burma, Turkmenistan and Bhutan.
Surprises among Western democracies : US below Costa Rica and Italy below Benin
Reporters Without Borders is publishing for the first time a worldwide index of countries according to their respect for press freedom. It also shows that such freedom is under threat everywhere, with the 20 bottom-ranked countries drawn from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. The situation in especially bad in Asia, which contains the four worst offenders - North Korea, China, Burma, Turkmenistan and Bhutan.
The top end of the list shows that rich countries have no monopoly of press freedom. Costa and Benin are examples of how growth of a free press does not just depend on a country's material prosperity.
The index was drawn up by asking journalists, researchers and legal experts to answer 50 questions about the whole range of press freedom violations (such as murders or arrests of journalists, censorship, pressure, state monopolies in various fields, punishment of press law offences and regulation of the media). The final list includes 139 countries. The others were not included in the absence of reliable information.
In the worst-ranked countries, press freedom is a dead letter and independent newspapers do not exist. The only voice heard is of media tightly controlled or monitored by the government. The very few independent journalists are constantly harassed, imprisoned or forced into exile by the authorities. The foreign media is banned or allowed in very small doses, always closely monitored.
Right at the top of the list four countries share first place - Finland, Iceland, Norway and the Netherlands. These northern European states scrupulously respect press freedom in their own countries but also speak up for it elsewhere, for example recently in Eritrea and Zimbabwe. The highest-scoring country outside Europe is Canada, which comes fifth.
Some countries with democratically-elected governments are way down in the index - such as Colombia (114th) and Bangladesh (118th). In these countries, armed rebel movements, militias or political parties constantly endanger the lives of journalists. The state fails to do all it could to protect them and fight the immunity very often enjoyed by those responsible for such violence.
Costa Rica better placed than the United States
The poor ranking of the United States (17th) is mainly because of the number of journalists arrested or imprisoned there. Arrests are often because they refuse to reveal their sources in court. Also, since the 11 September attacks, several journalists have been arrested for crossing security lines at some official buildings.
The highest-ranked country of the South is Costa Rica, in 15th position. This Central American nation is traditionally the continent's best performer in terms of press freedom. In February 2002, it ceased to be one of the 17 Latin American states that still give prison sentences to those found guilty of "insulting" public officials. The murder in July 2001 year of journalist Parmenio Medina was an exception in the history of the Costa Rican media.
Cuba, the last dictatorship in Latin America, came 134th and is the only country in the region where there is no diversity of news and journalists are routinely imprisoned. In Haiti (106th), journalists are targeted by informal militias whose actions are covered by the government.
Italy gets bad marks in Europe
The 15 member-countries of the European Union (EU) all score well except for Italy (40th), where news diversity is under serious threat. Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is turning up the pressure on the state-owned television stations, has named his henchmen to help run them and continues to combine his job as head of government with being boss of a privately-owned media group. The imprisonment of journalist Stefano Surace, convicted of press offences from 30 years ago, as well as the monitoring of journalists, searches, unjustified legal summonses and confiscation of equipment, are all responsible for the country's low ranking.
France, in 11th place overall, comes only 8th among EU countries because of several disturbing measures endangering the protection of journalists' sources and because of police interrogation of a number of journalists in recent months.
Among those states hoping to join the EU, Turkey (99th) is very poorly placed. Despite the reform efforts of its government, aimed at easing entry into the EU, many journalists are still being given prison sentences and the media is regularly censored. Press freedom is especially under siege in the southeastern part of the country.
Elsewhere in Europe, such as Belarus (124th), Russia (121st) and the former Soviet republics, it is still difficult to work as a journalist and several have been murdered or imprisoned. Grigory Pasko, jailed since December 2001 in the Vladivostok region of Russia, was given a four-year sentence for publishing pictures of the Russian Navy pouring liquid radioactive waste into the Sea of Japan.
The Middle East and Israel's ambivalent position
No Arab country is among the top 50. Lebanon only makes 56th place and the press freedom situation in the region is not encouraging. In Iraq (130th) and Syria (126th), the state uses every means to control the media and stifle any dissenting voice. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein especially has set his country's media the sole task of relaying his regime's propaganda. In Libya (129th) and Tunisia (128th), no criticism of Col Muammar Kadhafi or President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali is tolerated.
The political weakening of the Palestinian Authority (82nd) means it has made few assaults on press freedom. However, Islamic fundamentalist opposition media have been closed, several attempts made to intimidate and attack local and foreign journalists and many subjects remain taboo. The aim is to convey a united image of the Palestinian people and to conceal aspects such a demonstrations of support for attacks on Israel.
The attitude of Israel (92nd) towards press freedom is ambivalent. Despite strong pressure on state-owned TV and radio, the government respects the local media's freedom of expression. However, in the West Bank and Gaza, Reporters Without Borders has recorded a large number of violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which guarantees press freedom and which Israel has signed. Since the start of the Israeli army's incursions into Palestinian towns and cities in March 2002, very many journalists have been roughed up, threatened, arrested, banned from moving around, targeted by gunfire, wounded or injured, had their press cards withdrawn or been deported.
Good and bad examples in Africa
Eritrea (132nd) and Zimbabwe (122nd) are the most repressive countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The entire privately-owned press in Eritrea was banned by the government in September 2001 and 18 journalists are currently imprisoned there. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is notable for his especially harsh attitude to the foreign and opposition media.
At the other end of the spectrum, Benin is in 21st place despite being classified by the UN Development Programme as one of the world 15 poorest countries. Other African states, such as South Africa (26th), Mali (43rd), Namibia (31st) and Senegal (47th), have genuine press freedom too.
I've wondered about similar things to this. I have a scanner, that I used to scan my signature. I keep this as a JPG file. Whenever I receive a fax on my computer that I need to sign and send back, I often just open a graphic editor, copy and paste my signature to the fax, and send the fax back. Is this legally binding?
If so, does that mean someone else can just scan my signature, and do the same thing?
BTW, I'm in Canada, so a Canadian legal response/idea would be a bonus.
Dave
I have a ATI All-in-Wonder (AIW) 128 Pro, so it has the TV tuner built-in. I'd like to upgrade to a Radeon AND keep the TV tuner. But the Radeon AIW costs a lot more than the Radeon non-AIW. Therefore, I would ideally like to have:
1. my current AIW 128 Pro, just to use the TV-tuner.
2. a Radeon 8500, without the TV tuner.
But unfortunately, my system doesn't allow two AGP cards.
Dave
BTW, he goes by different names, usually those with the word "Physics" in it.
Here's another example of his copy and pasting:
This post: http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=42
is copied from this web page:
http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/mpmain.html
Take a look for yourself at his post history, the wide range of topics, and supposed knowledge.
Dave
Slightly OT: Have you folks noticed that recently random spaces have been inserted into some text URLs that people give?
I've noticed about 3 or 4 cases in the past few days.
i.e. The parent post probably was correctly entered, but Slashcode somehow inserted a random space.
The wings aren't for space, they're for landing on earth afterwards... like the NASA space shuttle.
Almost....
A half-wavelength would be half of that... 15 km.
Dave
Hilarious !!
both the response and the parent post!
Too bad I commented earlier in this article, or I would have modded you both up!
Dave
They're not trying for a mobile network, here. It's a fixed-wireless application. Building-to-building, and all that stuff.
Therefore, you don't want omnidirectional.
Dave
Oh yeah, and yesterday's article was not about just cell phones. 3G networks allow mobile terminals like your laptop, PDA, wristwatch phone, Star Trek communicator, whatever...
Dave
Strictly speaking, here are the differences:
Yesterday's article was about a mobile network. That is, at least one of the devices has the possibility of moving, which introduces fading. Fading is a serious impairment to the signal reception. Also, that mobile network has the possibility of multiple access interference (other users), another serious impairment to received signal to noise ratio.
Today's article (this one) is about two fixed wireless devices, separated by maybe a couple of feet (see the picture in the article). No fading is involved and no interference from other users is apparent.
Dave
A couple of points about this technique:
a.) I'd call this a 4G demonstration. Maximum data rates in the 3G specs/proposals (WCDMA, cdma2000, etc...) are much lower than 19 Mbps. e.g. 2-3 Mbps. e.g. By transmitting at 19 Mbps, they're not using WCDMA protocols.
b.) In a multiple Tx configuration, you're increasing the amount of interference. With 4 Tx antennas, the amount of interference seen by other users just went up by a factor of 4. This means your overall capacity just dropped by a factor of 4.
c.) Tranmitting at a higher data rate in WCDMA limits the number of other users you can have on the channel. You can only have a few users in a WCDMA cell transmitting at near maximum data rate.
I'd have to agree. I did bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering. Other than the occasional abbreviation in latin, I hardly ever see anything in latin, or hear of anything in latin.
Sure, some things might have their derivations in latin, but you have two choices:
1. learn an occasional new word, that just happens to have its derivations in latin.
2. learn an entirely new language (latin), and expanding your vocabulary of that language to 100s if not 1000s of words, so that you don't occasionally have to do #1, above.
I picked #1.
But hey, I learned a related language that's even more important:
Iay ancay peaksay igpay atinlay!
Dave
Does anyone ever read the article before commenting on it?
Most of the commenting people here so far fail to understand what's being proposed. Here's a quote from the article:
Multiple devices with different power requirements can recharge all at once on a single pad (the size can vary): When equipment is placed on the pad (at any angle), it communicates its power requirements through its exposed contacts, and then the pad's hardware sends the right voltage to the right contact points. When a device moves, the pad reconfigures itself instantly.
Dave
Three comments:
1. total = 1630 W, not 1645 W
2. How does your 460 W power supply translate into 1100 W? If it's a 460 W power supply, it uses 460 W. Where does the 1100 come from?
3. Here in Canada, most houses/apartments use a 115/120 V circuit with 15 Amps circuit breakers on receptacles. 25 and 30 A circuits are used for large appliances & electric heaters.
Dave
Yes, we're seen it in our Linux/Win network too. I try to print from Win NT or Win 2000, the print job goes out to the Samba print spooler. The little printer icon appears in the Win taskbar. I try to double-click on the little printer icon, and the usual printer pop-up window comes up. However, the window says something like, "trying to initialize printer xxxxx". Then after a minute or two it times out. Therefore, I never see the print job in the window. So I can't delete it. Even though the printer icon can't contact the printer, the print jobs usually work.
I just figured it was a setup bug in our network. Maybe it's a Samba bug instead.
Dave
Too many freakin' lawyers in the US. Every time I look at a US news site, Mr.X is suing Mr.Y. for six gazillion dollars.
I'm glad I'm Canadian.
Dave
Here's a great site if you just want to learn a little more about genetic algorithms and how they work. The Java applets on the pages are kinda interesting too.
http://cs.felk.cvut.cz/~xobitko/ga/
Dave
If anything, I'd say that high school to university is a bigger transition than bachelors to masters. Which would make it even more important to not take a year off after high school.
BTW - who said it was a bachelor/master of science? In the case of some masters degrees, e.g. MBA, you're far better off having some industry/corporate experience before you start it.
Dave