How long before your cell phone is turned into a device to eavesdrop on you? Could this be possible by remotely programming existing cell phones, without needing hardware modifications?
I'm going to start selling a little clip on to the cell phone to light up or beep when it detects that the phone is transmitting. I bet the paranoid would pay $50 for that. It wouldn't cost more than a few bucks to make, with a mini-circuits rf amplifier and mixer.
If someone is
willing to pay it and some body's willing to
supply it. It's a fair price.
Unless the guy making the decision and the guy parting with the money are not the same guy. If the board of directors of a company is deciding how to pay the CEO more (because the CEO is on THEIR board of directors) this isn't supply and demand - it's called "milking the system".
I'm currently running a "five flavors" iMac (333 MHz processor) which is now several years old. Has anyone tried OS X vs. OS 9 on a machine of this age?
It so happens that the moon was visible through my four year old's bedroom window. After bath and pajamas, we sat and watched it get smaller and smaller together until it disappeared (but of course was still visible, just darker).
High frequency devices have been around for quite a while. GaAs pHEMT chips are
available from many sources with operating frequencies above 70 GHz. These chips are used for analog signals, not digital logic. Comparing these transistors to silicon CMOS misses what these types of transistors are currently used for.
Uh, if you refund money from a monopoly, what's to prevent that money from going right back to the monopoly?
Ermm... are you saying they shouldn't give out money, because people may spend it on Microsoft products?
The idea of being illegally overcharged, then given a refund of a "coupon" instead of money, seems unfair. If my gas utility manipulates the price of natural gas, I'll still heat my house. Just because they were found to be price gouging does not mean that either (1) I will not be using natural gas anymore or (2) that I will necessarily spend a refundon natural gas. Cash lets me make that choice.
If they agreed to pay the price
You may have not realized you were paying the price, had no choice (see Monopoly), or whatever. If I illegally put a charge to your credit card, and you overlook it and pay it, does that mean you agreed to pay it?
If I'm not making any sense, it's because it's way past my bedtime. Sorry.
Would I benefit? No. I don't eat that much sugar. Would Latin America benefit from having a profitable export besides cocaine? Would the condition of the world, overall, improve? And would that be worth sacrificing some of the sugar interests in this country? I say, yes, yes, and yes.
I have a close friend who works in the department of Agriculture as an economist, who used to work in sugar. I've been listening to her rant about US protection of its sugar interests for quite some time, particularly in relation to South and Central American sugar producers. So indeed you are right.
If they really want free trade, how about not subsidizing american farmers at the expense of thrid world farmers, who are, in economic terms, vastly more efficient?
The "free trade" agreements seem to support incumbent businesses at the expense of innovation, which is the opposite of their intended use.
I'm no free trade nut - I think there's plenty wrong with unfettered free trade - but in the scope of problems it can address, let's use it to address them, and not further protect entrenched ways of doing things.
There is a difference between lazy and using all the available resources at your disposal.
For example, in your job do you ever look at a reference manual or book? In college that would be considered "cheating". In the business world that is considered okay.
The difference being that the goal in business is to accomplish a certain task, while the goal in education is to learn something. Given the very different goals, it makes sense that different rules apply.
Maximuim Theoretical Efficiency, due to the second law of thermodynamics, is (Thot-Tcold)/Thot, where the temperatures are measured in Kelvins. So for boiling exit water (100C = 373K) and room temp (20C = 293K), so about 20%
The engineering problem is getting Thot to be the microprocessor temperature, not the exiting cooling water temperature - this would give you much better efficiency, but at the possible cost of cooling power.
The car tax was there long before Davis, or something like it. I paid a few hundred bucks to register a truly old and crappy POS car there over 10 years ago.
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It wasn't that informative.
1 square meter is NOT 10^6 square microns.
But bonus points for being the first one to make this mistake in this thread, someone always does.
That expert never heard of lactation consultants.
I'm going to start selling a little clip on to the cell phone to light up or beep when it detects that the phone is transmitting. I bet the paranoid would pay $50 for that. It wouldn't cost more than a few bucks to make, with a mini-circuits rf amplifier and mixer.
That's why he's porting Windows to 64 bit machines!
By a factor of seven!
(This pointless comment brought to you by my need to goof off)
You should try riding the subway in Manhattan sometime.
Unless the guy making the decision and the guy parting with the money are not the same guy. If the board of directors of a company is deciding how to pay the CEO more (because the CEO is on THEIR board of directors) this isn't supply and demand - it's called "milking the system".
I'm currently running a "five flavors" iMac (333 MHz processor) which is now several years old. Has anyone tried OS X vs. OS 9 on a machine of this age?
Another nerd in the family! Hooray!
Ermm... are you saying they shouldn't give out money, because people may spend it on Microsoft products?
The idea of being illegally overcharged, then given a refund of a "coupon" instead of money, seems unfair. If my gas utility manipulates the price of natural gas, I'll still heat my house. Just because they were found to be price gouging does not mean that either (1) I will not be using natural gas anymore or (2) that I will necessarily spend a refundon natural gas. Cash lets me make that choice.
If they agreed to pay the price
You may have not realized you were paying the price, had no choice (see Monopoly), or whatever. If I illegally put a charge to your credit card, and you overlook it and pay it, does that mean you agreed to pay it?
If I'm not making any sense, it's because it's way past my bedtime. Sorry.
I mean, really. Even if it is for third party stuff. It was cash when the plantiff's were overcharged, shouldn't it be cash when it's returned?
Yes, that's why I invested in large, safe, well established entities - like Enron!
Would I benefit? No. I don't eat that much sugar. Would Latin America benefit from having a profitable export besides cocaine? Would the condition of the world, overall, improve? And would that be worth sacrificing some of the sugar interests in this country? I say, yes, yes, and yes.
The "free trade" agreements seem to support incumbent businesses at the expense of innovation, which is the opposite of their intended use.
I'm no free trade nut - I think there's plenty wrong with unfettered free trade - but in the scope of problems it can address, let's use it to address them, and not further protect entrenched ways of doing things.
Actually, they do. Not just Appleworks, but all the iTunes stuff too.
That way your pregnant wife can't bother you either.
Of course, my comments aren't published by Forbes.
That's why I left graduate school. I couldn't stand the stock market turning up and down on my every comment.
For example, in your job do you ever look at a reference manual or book? In college that would be considered "cheating". In the business world that is considered okay.
The difference being that the goal in business is to accomplish a certain task, while the goal in education is to learn something. Given the very different goals, it makes sense that different rules apply.
The engineering problem is getting Thot to be the microprocessor temperature, not the exiting cooling water temperature - this would give you much better efficiency, but at the possible cost of cooling power.
I think the deciding factor in such a purchase would be shock resistance. These poor computers are going to get the crap beat out of them.