Has anyone managed to do count the coins in their pockets in a Murakami style?
100y and 500y in the right pocket and 10y and 50y in the left. A hand in each pocket and count them simultaneously. The presumption that the right brain and left brain keep separate tabs and you can bring together the result at the end.
I agree completely that Underground was fascinating. Having read every Murakami novel available in the UK the closest analogy to another author would be to Jane Austin. (I haven't read much PKD).
Seriously, both authors improve with age and return to themes that fascinate them. With Austin it was the role and social acceptability, the mating of wants and desires with the perceived ideal of what is socially correct. With Murakami it is his focus on the mind, thought, and indeed exploring the idea of deciding what is socially responsible.
One hypothesis put forward by Jay Rubin in his bio of Murakami was that while swimming against the current of the mainstream literati in Japan it was inevitable that he would eventually assume that role.
Um, the reason you have transmit power limits for networks around hospitals is that hospital equipment (and some aircraft systems) receive interference from mobile phones and networks. There are usually power limits and exclusion zones placed around hospitals (at least in Europe).
Wait, my heart/lung machine is receiving a text message
The same thing applies to the mobiles, possibly within the hospital itself. Even when the phone is switched on and in no coverage, from lead lined walls or from the exclusion zone, the receiver circuitry is active and can interfere with some equipment through sympathetic or dip oscillations.
Just turn the damn thing off.
...that did get fixed.
Code that produces logfiles for debugging purposes should loop nice and safely so it doesn't get too big. Or as one of our coders implemented, start a new file every 10k.
Pretty soon there were lots of files in a single directory. Once you bluescreened, or simply rebooted, the system wouldn't start back up.
You'd be surprised how many re-installs we had to do before finding this one.
One major reason experienced operators don't go after Smart Antennas is that their gain over regular antennas is only a few dB, usually between 3dB and 7dB. The improvement is easily cancelled out by it raining (-2dB to -4dB) which it does in Europe a great deal, the user changing polarisation by moving the phone from one ear to another (-3dB).
For 3G (Wideband CDMA) the name of the game is controlling interference from adjacent cells. Cell placement was good enough to do this for 2G, but 3G is far more sensitive to poor cell placement, with the effect felt over several cells. The way operators do this in practice is by planning the interference before placing the cell, or controlling it once the cell is built, or if it is built on an existing 2G site. Smart Antennas make simple planning very difficult, as the exact radiation pattern is not known, or more precisely it changes from one instance of the Monte Carlo simulation used for capacity planning a 3G cell to another.
Cell breathing due to high capacity, or high power mobiles are a few more variables that make the problem of planning and then running a 3G network far too complex for operators to take a bet on a few extra dB from Smart Antennas.
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100y and 500y in the right pocket and 10y and 50y in the left. A hand in each pocket and count them simultaneously. The presumption that the right brain and left brain keep separate tabs and you can bring together the result at the end.
Reminds me of 6800 registers...
Seriously, both authors improve with age and return to themes that fascinate them. With Austin it was the role and social acceptability, the mating of wants and desires with the perceived ideal of what is socially correct. With Murakami it is his focus on the mind, thought, and indeed exploring the idea of deciding what is socially responsible.
One hypothesis put forward by Jay Rubin in his bio of Murakami was that while swimming against the current of the mainstream literati in Japan it was inevitable that he would eventually assume that role.
Phones only transmit when they can "see" a network. If the shielding works as advertised, then the mobiles themselves won't transmit.
Um, the reason you have transmit power limits for networks around hospitals is that hospital equipment (and some aircraft systems) receive interference from mobile phones and networks. There are usually power limits and exclusion zones placed around hospitals (at least in Europe). Wait, my heart/lung machine is receiving a text message The same thing applies to the mobiles, possibly within the hospital itself. Even when the phone is switched on and in no coverage, from lead lined walls or from the exclusion zone, the receiver circuitry is active and can interfere with some equipment through sympathetic or dip oscillations. Just turn the damn thing off.
...that did get fixed. Code that produces logfiles for debugging purposes should loop nice and safely so it doesn't get too big. Or as one of our coders implemented, start a new file every 10k. Pretty soon there were lots of files in a single directory. Once you bluescreened, or simply rebooted, the system wouldn't start back up. You'd be surprised how many re-installs we had to do before finding this one.
deaf.
One major reason experienced operators don't go after Smart Antennas is that their gain over regular antennas is only a few dB, usually between 3dB and 7dB. The improvement is easily cancelled out by it raining (-2dB to -4dB) which it does in Europe a great deal, the user changing polarisation by moving the phone from one ear to another (-3dB).
For 3G (Wideband CDMA) the name of the game is controlling interference from adjacent cells. Cell placement was good enough to do this for 2G, but 3G is far more sensitive to poor cell placement, with the effect felt over several cells. The way operators do this in practice is by planning the interference before placing the cell, or controlling it once the cell is built, or if it is built on an existing 2G site. Smart Antennas make simple planning very difficult, as the exact radiation pattern is not known, or more precisely it changes from one instance of the Monte Carlo simulation used for capacity planning a 3G cell to another.
Cell breathing due to high capacity, or high power mobiles are a few more variables that make the problem of planning and then running a 3G network far too complex for operators to take a bet on a few extra dB from Smart Antennas.