It can also be enforced to the point where changing the climate controls on your dash can get you fined because it requires you to take your hands off the wheel.
if you aren't allowed to take the hands off the wheel, you can't drive stick (unless you stay on first gear all the trip).
I guess since all yanks drive an automatic geared car this is no problem
This effect has been noticed in Barcelona.
Despite have a simple gear mechanism (I think it's this one, with 3 settings), the higher areas tend to have no bikes and the lower ones no empty spaces to leave them.
However, the bikes are distributed regularly using vans.
A similar system has been in place in Barcelona for a couple of years now, it's called bicing.
The system doesn't explicitly track the bikes, but knows on which station is each bike, or if it is in use, which user has it.
The most you could get is a database of points between which each user moves. For example, I mostly move between two stations: one next to the train station and one next to my working place.
The linking between the bike and the user is to enforce a maximum time of use, after which an economic penalty occurs.
I think two sets of RFIDs are in place. One on the user cards and one on the bikes. When you want a bike, you swipe your card in front of a terminal and the system links a bike to you and tells you which one to pick. However, when you return a bike, you only place it in it's "cradle", since the bike ID is linked to you.
if an artist is incapable of creating nothing more than a hit, is (s)he really an artist? should (s)he be able to live off of it?
and why should this be limited to musical recordings only? why not ebooks or other digitally-storable artistical forms?
It's been possible to predict the market for quite some time; using the wiener algorythm, a predictive filter used, mainly, in telecommunications. It's a recursive algorythm developed around WWII. I've heard of some people using it to buy in the stock exachange and getting a profit. Of course it won't have all the information a human could get and do incredible profits, but will see how the market is and how it should evolve.
there are some evolutions, like the LMS, which adapts itself along the time. It is used for echo cancellation, as it adapts itself to the enviromental response and tries to process the signal so the medium looks ideal.
My father had the same issue with his windows 2000 on the old laptop (toshita satellite 4000 I think) and a dlink pcmcia card (dwl-520+). However it only appeared if his desktop computer was not on the network (it was not on, or he wasn't home). How's that for weird?
I never got around to even finding what the problem was. Now he has a new laptop that works flawlessly
I'm catalan. And I can say that lately there's been a lot of hatred against our nation pushed by some spanish political parties (Yet I don't to turn this into a political discussion).
This problem appeared because of a vandalized entry in wikipedia, but could also have appeared if a person had modified the film or written it wrong from the start, so the problem here is not the reliance on open content, but the reliance on people's goodness, which in the open [content, source,...] is mostly there, but can be displaced by some feelings, most of them learnt and fueled since childhood.
But the same thing's been happening throughout the history. Surely if you looked on recognized encyclopedias some time ago, a lot of entries about slaves would be unaccpetable by today standards. The same happens over conquered soil after a war, when the losers become the vermin that had to be erradicated and the winners the saviors of the people (and usually end up being as bad as those they overthrew). And many other examples could be given.
So the problem here is the open content or close-minded people?
That's right. Even analogue modems (the 33.6 et al.) used digital codifications (it was de 64-QAM IIRC, which has a 64 symbol alphabet changing amplitude and phase). But those symbols, transmited over an analog line, are only analog symbols as a cosine, a sinc, or a pulse. As said before there may appear capacitive effects.
Every cable can be modeled as a capacitor, an inductance, a resistance and a conductance, all of them depending on the distance (that is, they are usually given in F/m, H/m,...) So there appears an attenuation. The great thing about digital communications is, as you have only some finite symbols, you can "correct" the errors by supposing the intended symbol was the nearest to the signal (actually the symbol probabylity usually comes into game too). As also stated, the cables have a finite frequency bandwidth; So depending on the signal frequency or the distance, you may recieve no signal, or have it closer to another one. Also the noise may change it a little enough.
Try to use a cat3 UTP for a 100mbps full-duplex ethernet and you'll see you don't get any frame.
And if you think using the correct cable is enough as actually there is no interference or crosstalking, you can try to use a cat5 cable, but without respecting the twisting (that is having the correct connections on either side, so each pin is right, but mixing the twists) and you'll get about 5mbps.
So cable is important even in home ethernets; even though on that level it's very known and studied, and if you do the things right, you'll get no problems
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how can you be sure it has a firmware?
it can be an FPGA, or even sillicon hard.
I work with this device and it boots up without any kind of ROM or firmware upload.
In this case, would you like the VHDL to be open?
If that's the case, why not ask intel/AMD/... to release the VHDL for their current lineup?
It can also be enforced to the point where changing the climate controls on your dash can get you fined because it requires you to take your hands off the wheel.
if you aren't allowed to take the hands off the wheel, you can't drive stick (unless you stay on first gear all the trip).
I guess since all yanks drive an automatic geared car this is no problem
This effect has been noticed in Barcelona.
Despite have a simple gear mechanism (I think it's this one, with 3 settings), the higher areas tend to have no bikes and the lower ones no empty spaces to leave them.
However, the bikes are distributed regularly using vans.
A similar system has been in place in Barcelona for a couple of years now, it's called bicing.
The system doesn't explicitly track the bikes, but knows on which station is each bike, or if it is in use, which user has it.
The most you could get is a database of points between which each user moves. For example, I mostly move between two stations: one next to the train station and one next to my working place.
The linking between the bike and the user is to enforce a maximum time of use, after which an economic penalty occurs.
I think two sets of RFIDs are in place. One on the user cards and one on the bikes. When you want a bike, you swipe your card in front of a terminal and the system links a bike to you and tells you which one to pick. However, when you return a bike, you only place it in it's "cradle", since the bike ID is linked to you.
web 3.0? is the web 2.0 hype over already? Now that I was starting to get into the bandwagon and to enjoy it..........
if an artist is incapable of creating nothing more than a hit, is (s)he really an artist? should (s)he be able to live off of it? and why should this be limited to musical recordings only? why not ebooks or other digitally-storable artistical forms?
It's been possible to predict the market for quite some time; using the wiener algorythm, a predictive filter used, mainly, in telecommunications. It's a recursive algorythm developed around WWII. I've heard of some people using it to buy in the stock exachange and getting a profit. Of course it won't have all the information a human could get and do incredible profits, but will see how the market is and how it should evolve.
there are some evolutions, like the LMS, which adapts itself along the time. It is used for echo cancellation, as it adapts itself to the enviromental response and tries to process the signal so the medium looks ideal.
My father had the same issue with his windows 2000 on the old laptop (toshita satellite 4000 I think) and a dlink pcmcia card (dwl-520+). However it only appeared if his desktop computer was not on the network (it was not on, or he wasn't home). How's that for weird?
I never got around to even finding what the problem was. Now he has a new laptop that works flawlessly
I'm catalan. And I can say that lately there's been a lot of hatred against our nation pushed by some spanish political parties (Yet I don't to turn this into a political discussion). This problem appeared because of a vandalized entry in wikipedia, but could also have appeared if a person had modified the film or written it wrong from the start, so the problem here is not the reliance on open content, but the reliance on people's goodness, which in the open [content, source, ...] is mostly there, but can be displaced by some feelings, most of them learnt and fueled since childhood.
But the same thing's been happening throughout the history. Surely if you looked on recognized encyclopedias some time ago, a lot of entries about slaves would be unaccpetable by today standards. The same happens over conquered soil after a war, when the losers become the vermin that had to be erradicated and the winners the saviors of the people (and usually end up being as bad as those they overthrew). And many other examples could be given.
So the problem here is the open content or close-minded people?
That's right. Even analogue modems (the 33.6 et al.) used digital codifications (it was de 64-QAM IIRC, which has a 64 symbol alphabet changing amplitude and phase). But those symbols, transmited over an analog line, are only analog symbols as a cosine, a sinc, or a pulse. As said before there may appear capacitive effects. Every cable can be modeled as a capacitor, an inductance, a resistance and a conductance, all of them depending on the distance (that is, they are usually given in F/m, H/m, ...) So there appears an attenuation. The great thing about digital communications is, as you have only some finite symbols, you can "correct" the errors by supposing the intended symbol was the nearest to the signal (actually the symbol probabylity usually comes into game too). As also stated, the cables have a finite frequency bandwidth; So depending on the signal frequency or the distance, you may recieve no signal, or have it closer to another one. Also the noise may change it a little enough.
Try to use a cat3 UTP for a 100mbps full-duplex ethernet and you'll see you don't get any frame.
And if you think using the correct cable is enough as actually there is no interference or crosstalking, you can try to use a cat5 cable, but without respecting the twisting (that is having the correct connections on either side, so each pin is right, but mixing the twists) and you'll get about 5mbps.
So cable is important even in home ethernets; even though on that level it's very known and studied, and if you do the things right, you'll get no problems