Exactly, even without sending up malicious satellites, there's enough space junk up there that's hard enough to track. Why would you want it to cost only $300 to send something into space. That sounds like a really terrible idea unless they have a nice garbage collection method planned.
Looking at the photo of the clay tablet just makes me think I would have at least tried to get creative with the scam. You know, like trace a scene from Angry birds onto the clay before putting it into a box. Or maybe something like words with friends. These scammers are way too lazy.
This reminds me of a scam a friend's brother used to pull where he'd go to Best Buy, purchase a video game, open the little fold in the plastic with a razor, take the disc out, then return the game. I'm sure he's not the only person doing it, and I always wonder what happen when you're the person who thought you purchased Call of Duty but instead received an empty box that you now have to return to the store.
As far as them not believing the original customer with the clay iPad till a few more people came back, couldn't they have seen that the item had in fact been returned at some point prior to him purchasing it or do they not keep track of that information for "unopened" purchases?
Well basically what I pulled from the article is that the entire thing is vaporware as far as what they think it might eventually do. Getting some little device with no camera and no controllers to swim in a fish tank (not in any particular direction) externally powered by an MRI machine is not at all like having a device that won't cause any harm and can actually do something useful inside a patient.
Most copper theft is from abandoned/foreclosed homes. Pipes and wires are ripped out shortly after the home is left, the new owners cover that cost and they're not worried about someone stealing the cables and pipes while they're still living in the home. Maybe some small places where utility wires can and are stolen more easily and frequently will want to implement this solution, but then the more expensive cable will now be stolen because the thieves think it's copper wire. Unless everyone was using the same wire and it was just "known" that looking at some wires they're not going to be copper, people are still going to try and steal the cable.
The swimmer is POWERED by the MRI not controlled. Basically right now what they've got is a small device that has a tail that vibrates in the strong magnetic field from an MRI machine. That vibration can currently propel the device a few millimeters per second in water. That's all the article seems to say, I guess they intend to eventually put a small receiver controlling some sort of rudders as well as a camera and a small power supply? It doesn't say much about how the device will work if there isn't enough fluid for it to move through, do you just move away from the MRI and let your intestines do their job? Do you have to return the device to the hospital or do they not let you leave till you've "flushed" it out?
Is the upfront cost less than or close to that of just a pure copper solution? If not then it's not likely going to be implemented. I knew a couple people who worked for the electric company, they'd come home with 20lb buckets of scrap. Just a dozen short pieces pieces of very large gauge copper wire, that stuff I'd say would be worth stealing if you knew you could do it without frying yourself (an unlikely possibility unless you had a lot of experience with high voltage lines) but going down the street taking down power lines with a chainsaw, seems like you'd be better off driving into a convenience store with a pickup truck and running off with an ATM machine.
250GB / month is a constant speed of a little under 100KB/sec. I use more bandwidth than that just running a VPN to a few computers in the office. While I may be far from the average user, I'm sure there's a Comcast user out there with a legitimate reason to use over 250GB / month.
Yeah every time i'm at an airport security checkpoint surrounded by hundreds of people waiting in line to check their shoes I get a good laugh thinking how perfect a target the checkpoint line makes. You can shove a lot of explosives into a carry on bag when you know it'll never be checked because your target is the line of people waiting to be checkedd...
I wonder what they'll do besides mandating clear luggage or banning carry on items all together.
The super poor people you're familiar with sound like they live in a major city where they have the option of taking the bus or the subway. Unfortunately for some super poor people who don't live in or around a major city, there aren't buses and subways everywhere and a car is required if you want to work.
I had no idea there was going to be a ban on 100W incandescent bulbs. I currently have 4 150W bulbs and they're in use as modeling lights for my AlienBee strobes. They work well cause they provide really good reference lighting, they're cheap ($2), I haven't replaced them in the 4 years I've had them and they're fully dimmable. I'm not sure what I'm going to end up doing if I have to replace them, anyone have any experience with that? Are there replacements that will be just as bright that will work with a dimmer or do I just have to hope these bulbs never die?
Richard Stallman refuses to use credit cards for anything because he doesn't want the government tracking his purchases. I don't think having a free (as in speech) OS on a phone will make any difference. Unless it was built by himself with free hardware using a free network.
That sounds like a huge pain in the ass just to send one file. I can right click on the file in windows explorer and click send to and send it right to my boss. I don't have to create a ticket or anything, it just works. Plus i'm not stuck if the forum goes down since I can just email from another account. While the article may be accurate that few people in the ages 11-19 use email, it isn't relevant since it's better suited for the professional world anyway.
I wonder how they would handle sending files? At least once a month I email my boss a file I might be working on. Maybe it's a PSD of a new flyer or an XLS with our customer info but i'll email it over and maybe he'll email it back with some changes. Works out quite well.
Then there's keeping logs of conversations for accountability. If I email the secretary to order something and it doesn't get ordered, I can just search my sent email for 'order' in the subject and find the email to show I sent it. It doesn't seem as easy to do that with a messaging client as you'd need to search chat logs which aren't as neatly formated.
My first computer was an IBM PS/2 running Windows 3.1, 66MHz 486. Back then the sound of a HDD being accessed usually followed any action I did, opening notepad, starting a game, etc. When the noise stopped the computer was ready and I became conditioned to think of that noise to mean loading. Now days I hear a HDD access noise and all I can think of is "Wow this computer is so slow!" It doesn't matter if it takes the same amount of time to open a program on a silent PC or on a PC with a really loud HDD, the noise tells my mind that the computer is slow.
The worst thing about how silent PCs have gotten is that people now think any noise from a PC is bad. I've had customers come in because their computer is "way too loud" meanwhile they've got a fan that peaks at 35-40db. Sometimes I wish I could show them some of my old computers with 60+ dBA Deltas pushing 200+CFM to give them a far better comparison of what "way too loud" actually is.
I had a MacBook Pro and used the DVD drive sometimes to install store bought software, like Aperture, Final Cut Express, Adobe Master Collection CS 5, OS X Snow Leopard.
It was really handy having CDs since I had a photography job where the clients wanted to see photos. My laptop was being repaired so I just brought my girlfriends, installed the software on site and had no problems at all. I don't like the app store for distribution (I don't have a credit card and I can't even download free apps without one since the 'None' payment option is gone for new accounts) and even with it, if I have no internet the app store is useless. Thumb drives are a nice distribution method but most of my software still comes on CDs/DVDs. Until they change that (and not with internet stores, I mean thumb drive media) I still like having a laptop with a built in optical media reader.
The police are actively handling your property. It's like if they installed a gps tracker on your shoes, or your shirt, or maybe they walk up to your kid at school and attach a device to their bookbag. They don't have a right to do that. Just like they don't have a right to attach a traditional surveillance camera to your house to watch your neighbors. If they wanted to follow your car that's one thing as they'd just be driving legally on public roads. The fact is that they're attaching a device to your property without your consent or without a warrant, they don't have a legal right to do that.
The ideal distance is too close to my keyboard. Usually if I'm leaving my phone on my desk I put it to the right of my designated "mouse area" which is generally a foot or more from the keyboard. I'm a computer technician so I don't just sit at one computer all day too. Plus most of our customers seem to follow the same policy. They kind of put their phone on the corner of their desk so they don't bump it as their hands move around the keyboard and mouse. If my phone is that close to my keyboard I'm likely not at my computer and I just threw it their with my keys and wallet.
That wouldn't be too hard. The kinect already does 3D spatial movement recognition, you just need the 3D holographic display which is what this provides. So this plus the kinect = holographic chess.
... I'm technical and I made it in boot camp (USMC). Every Marine a rifleman. Its not hard and they don't just want IT people. Yes maybe if we get rid of boot camp and increase the pay for certain jobs and stop requiring everyone know how to shoot then the IT staff might be a little better, but I really doubt by much. There are some smart guys in the military things like this are usually a management issue.
I'm going to guess you never noticed the "Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program" options. Well if you choose to participate I wouldn't be surprised if start menu usage data is something they collect.
There's no stars in the photos! Obiously they're fake and the moon landing was a hoax!
On a more serious note, I love these photos. I'm fascinated by the moon landings. Just looking up at the night sky and seeing the moon and thinking humans have set foot there, when a little over 100 years ago the idea of flight was only a dream.
Sounds good but we (the US) couldn't even successfully switch over to the metric system. Yes it will be easier in the future but most people don't seem to care about long term goals when it means in the short term they'll have to remember that work is from 2-10 not 9-5. Also while we're at it we might as well switch to the 24 hour clock.
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Exactly, even without sending up malicious satellites, there's enough space junk up there that's hard enough to track. Why would you want it to cost only $300 to send something into space. That sounds like a really terrible idea unless they have a nice garbage collection method planned.
Looking at the photo of the clay tablet just makes me think I would have at least tried to get creative with the scam. You know, like trace a scene from Angry birds onto the clay before putting it into a box. Or maybe something like words with friends. These scammers are way too lazy.
This reminds me of a scam a friend's brother used to pull where he'd go to Best Buy, purchase a video game, open the little fold in the plastic with a razor, take the disc out, then return the game. I'm sure he's not the only person doing it, and I always wonder what happen when you're the person who thought you purchased Call of Duty but instead received an empty box that you now have to return to the store.
As far as them not believing the original customer with the clay iPad till a few more people came back, couldn't they have seen that the item had in fact been returned at some point prior to him purchasing it or do they not keep track of that information for "unopened" purchases?
Well basically what I pulled from the article is that the entire thing is vaporware as far as what they think it might eventually do. Getting some little device with no camera and no controllers to swim in a fish tank (not in any particular direction) externally powered by an MRI machine is not at all like having a device that won't cause any harm and can actually do something useful inside a patient.
Most copper theft is from abandoned/foreclosed homes. Pipes and wires are ripped out shortly after the home is left, the new owners cover that cost and they're not worried about someone stealing the cables and pipes while they're still living in the home. Maybe some small places where utility wires can and are stolen more easily and frequently will want to implement this solution, but then the more expensive cable will now be stolen because the thieves think it's copper wire. Unless everyone was using the same wire and it was just "known" that looking at some wires they're not going to be copper, people are still going to try and steal the cable.
The swimmer is POWERED by the MRI not controlled. Basically right now what they've got is a small device that has a tail that vibrates in the strong magnetic field from an MRI machine. That vibration can currently propel the device a few millimeters per second in water. That's all the article seems to say, I guess they intend to eventually put a small receiver controlling some sort of rudders as well as a camera and a small power supply? It doesn't say much about how the device will work if there isn't enough fluid for it to move through, do you just move away from the MRI and let your intestines do their job? Do you have to return the device to the hospital or do they not let you leave till you've "flushed" it out?
Is the upfront cost less than or close to that of just a pure copper solution? If not then it's not likely going to be implemented. I knew a couple people who worked for the electric company, they'd come home with 20lb buckets of scrap. Just a dozen short pieces pieces of very large gauge copper wire, that stuff I'd say would be worth stealing if you knew you could do it without frying yourself (an unlikely possibility unless you had a lot of experience with high voltage lines) but going down the street taking down power lines with a chainsaw, seems like you'd be better off driving into a convenience store with a pickup truck and running off with an ATM machine.
250GB / month is a constant speed of a little under 100KB/sec. I use more bandwidth than that just running a VPN to a few computers in the office. While I may be far from the average user, I'm sure there's a Comcast user out there with a legitimate reason to use over 250GB / month.
The summary is pulled directly from the top of the article.
Here's the article from HPC Wire and some details from nvidia as well as the nvidia press release
Yeah every time i'm at an airport security checkpoint surrounded by hundreds of people waiting in line to check their shoes I get a good laugh thinking how perfect a target the checkpoint line makes. You can shove a lot of explosives into a carry on bag when you know it'll never be checked because your target is the line of people waiting to be checkedd...
I wonder what they'll do besides mandating clear luggage or banning carry on items all together.
The super poor people you're familiar with sound like they live in a major city where they have the option of taking the bus or the subway. Unfortunately for some super poor people who don't live in or around a major city, there aren't buses and subways everywhere and a car is required if you want to work.
I had no idea there was going to be a ban on 100W incandescent bulbs. I currently have 4 150W bulbs and they're in use as modeling lights for my AlienBee strobes. They work well cause they provide really good reference lighting, they're cheap ($2), I haven't replaced them in the 4 years I've had them and they're fully dimmable. I'm not sure what I'm going to end up doing if I have to replace them, anyone have any experience with that? Are there replacements that will be just as bright that will work with a dimmer or do I just have to hope these bulbs never die?
It's so obvious what this is, Wheatley fell down from space...
Richard Stallman refuses to use credit cards for anything because he doesn't want the government tracking his purchases. I don't think having a free (as in speech) OS on a phone will make any difference. Unless it was built by himself with free hardware using a free network.
That sounds like a huge pain in the ass just to send one file. I can right click on the file in windows explorer and click send to and send it right to my boss. I don't have to create a ticket or anything, it just works. Plus i'm not stuck if the forum goes down since I can just email from another account. While the article may be accurate that few people in the ages 11-19 use email, it isn't relevant since it's better suited for the professional world anyway.
I wonder how they would handle sending files? At least once a month I email my boss a file I might be working on. Maybe it's a PSD of a new flyer or an XLS with our customer info but i'll email it over and maybe he'll email it back with some changes. Works out quite well.
Then there's keeping logs of conversations for accountability. If I email the secretary to order something and it doesn't get ordered, I can just search my sent email for 'order' in the subject and find the email to show I sent it. It doesn't seem as easy to do that with a messaging client as you'd need to search chat logs which aren't as neatly formated.
My first computer was an IBM PS/2 running Windows 3.1, 66MHz 486. Back then the sound of a HDD being accessed usually followed any action I did, opening notepad, starting a game, etc. When the noise stopped the computer was ready and I became conditioned to think of that noise to mean loading. Now days I hear a HDD access noise and all I can think of is "Wow this computer is so slow!" It doesn't matter if it takes the same amount of time to open a program on a silent PC or on a PC with a really loud HDD, the noise tells my mind that the computer is slow.
The worst thing about how silent PCs have gotten is that people now think any noise from a PC is bad. I've had customers come in because their computer is "way too loud" meanwhile they've got a fan that peaks at 35-40db. Sometimes I wish I could show them some of my old computers with 60+ dBA Deltas pushing 200+CFM to give them a far better comparison of what "way too loud" actually is.
I had a MacBook Pro and used the DVD drive sometimes to install store bought software, like Aperture, Final Cut Express, Adobe Master Collection CS 5, OS X Snow Leopard.
It was really handy having CDs since I had a photography job where the clients wanted to see photos. My laptop was being repaired so I just brought my girlfriends, installed the software on site and had no problems at all. I don't like the app store for distribution (I don't have a credit card and I can't even download free apps without one since the 'None' payment option is gone for new accounts) and even with it, if I have no internet the app store is useless. Thumb drives are a nice distribution method but most of my software still comes on CDs/DVDs. Until they change that (and not with internet stores, I mean thumb drive media) I still like having a laptop with a built in optical media reader.
The police are actively handling your property. It's like if they installed a gps tracker on your shoes, or your shirt, or maybe they walk up to your kid at school and attach a device to their bookbag. They don't have a right to do that. Just like they don't have a right to attach a traditional surveillance camera to your house to watch your neighbors. If they wanted to follow your car that's one thing as they'd just be driving legally on public roads. The fact is that they're attaching a device to your property without your consent or without a warrant, they don't have a legal right to do that.
The ideal distance is too close to my keyboard. Usually if I'm leaving my phone on my desk I put it to the right of my designated "mouse area" which is generally a foot or more from the keyboard. I'm a computer technician so I don't just sit at one computer all day too. Plus most of our customers seem to follow the same policy. They kind of put their phone on the corner of their desk so they don't bump it as their hands move around the keyboard and mouse. If my phone is that close to my keyboard I'm likely not at my computer and I just threw it their with my keys and wallet.
That wouldn't be too hard. The kinect already does 3D spatial movement recognition, you just need the 3D holographic display which is what this provides. So this plus the kinect = holographic chess.
... I'm technical and I made it in boot camp (USMC). Every Marine a rifleman. Its not hard and they don't just want IT people. Yes maybe if we get rid of boot camp and increase the pay for certain jobs and stop requiring everyone know how to shoot then the IT staff might be a little better, but I really doubt by much. There are some smart guys in the military things like this are usually a management issue.
I'm going to guess you never noticed the "Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program" options. Well if you choose to participate I wouldn't be surprised if start menu usage data is something they collect.
Italy uses a 24 hour clock so I'd say AM
There's no stars in the photos! Obiously they're fake and the moon landing was a hoax!
On a more serious note, I love these photos. I'm fascinated by the moon landings. Just looking up at the night sky and seeing the moon and thinking humans have set foot there, when a little over 100 years ago the idea of flight was only a dream.
Sounds good but we (the US) couldn't even successfully switch over to the metric system. Yes it will be easier in the future but most people don't seem to care about long term goals when it means in the short term they'll have to remember that work is from 2-10 not 9-5. Also while we're at it we might as well switch to the 24 hour clock.