Sidecars constructed for performance use automobile wheels and tyres, both for the lateral loading issue and also to put more rubber on the road (motorcycle tyres have a round profile, and put much less rubber on the road than even an economy car tyre).
Terrafugia is missing an idea here - build the "car" with only three wheels, and submit it to DOT as a motorcycle, not a car. Then they can continue to use the bike tyres and wheels, while cutting the cost of running the vehicle (in many states, registering a motorcycle costs much less than a car).
Correct. The field in question is micropayments.
Hi-Media and Rentabiliweb are both companies that handle micropayments. The French Wikipedia page for Micropayments used to list both companies. Someone from Hi-Media edited the page, and deleted the name of Rentabiliweb. Court found in favour of Rentabiliweb for 25,000 euros (roughly $36,000). Edit logs from Wikipedia and reverse DNS was the main evidence.
Any politico worth his salt knows that robocalls, no matter how many and who is talking, do nothing but piss the electorate off at you.
In this case, people from party A were calling supporters of party B, claiming to be from party B. So, if the electorate got pissed at party B, they would consider that a success.
Nobody "invented" the personal computer. Taking an existing product and making it cheaper/faster/smaller/cooler is not "inventing" anything, it is merely developing a better product.
Apple did not "invent" the smartphone, Toyota did not "invent" the hybrid, and Tivo did not "invent" recording video on hard disks either.
Of course it will keep them alive - Nokia will just shift from being an engineering company to being a patent troll. All they need to do now is to get rid of those pesky engineers.
Even if the plane was 100% fiber interconnect - there is still direct interference to the sensor/antenna, and direct interference to the communications equipment itself (which uses copper internally).
And even if you were allowed to have your cell phone turned on - when flying at 40,000 feet, you are *eight miles* or more from the nearest cell phone tower, while sitting inside a Faraday cage. Good luck connecting.
If very small children can pick up a Nintendo DS or a LeapFrog device and use it with little instruction, then it stands to reason that, all things being equal, the elderly should be able to use a cell phone just as easily
No, it stands to reason that the elderly should be able to use a DS or LeapFrog just as easily. The UI of something like a LeapFrog is designed for its target audience - a 5 year old - and so it is made simple. The UI of a smartphone is also aimed at its target - a 25 year old geek - and may not be usable by non-geeks.
For instance, take the "twistie" UI element on Apple OSes. (The rotating triangle element that expands/collapses other UI elements). Even extremely tech-savvy people often do not understand that one - because (a) it is very non-standard (every other OS uses + and -); and (b) it is non-intuitive (there are no rotating triangles in real life; it is not an analogy for some real-world element).
NHK (the Japanese broadcaster) has been working on the next generation of HD for 5 years now. 7680 x 4320 resolution, 22.2 channel audio. They already have cameras and have done live broadcasts. http://www.nhk.or.jp/digital/en/technical/02_super.html
Of course, it took over 10 years for HD to make it from being developed until it was a common consumer product, so don't hold your breath.
(NHK developed 1080i around about 1980, first commercial broadcasts in Japan 1994, first in USA 1998).
How many people copy music on SD cards? 99.9% of them are used in things like digital cameras. Other than a few VW owners (some models have a SD card slot in the dash connected to the music system) I don't know anyone who would.
Go ahead and tax iPods, which actually *are* used for copying music - but don't try and kill off the photography industry by adding useless taxes.
they own, say, five legal copies then rent them out to five paying customers at a time
If they rent to five customers, and the sixth customer gets a "Sorry" error screen, then that is fine. If they have five legal copies and rent out more than five copies simultaneously, then the MPAA has a perfectly valid case.
For scientists - in fact, *rocket* scientists - they seem to have a strange definition for the word "ocean". This sounds more like a large cave filled with water.
Of *course* your location is important to them. Google is an advertising company; geographically targeted adverising is in high demand.
The issue people have is when Google (or anyone else) collects this data without any consent, and without adequate warning that it is being collected.
Google is also keeping all of the money for itself, and is not passing any of it on to the users who supplied the data. If your smartphone paid you cash for every day you allow them to track your data, people would not be objecting so loudly.
How long until there is an app that intentionally provides bogus location information to the API, and inserts bogus data into the location history files?
They already mucked it up by putting it in the wrong place. This would be a smart thing to build into Apache (or other web *server*) but pretty pointless to put in a web *browser*.
250 gigs of data is their normal cap across the board.
And that limit is very easy to approach, even on their slowest line, with moderate netflix + gaming. Their penalties for going over 250 are pretty severe.
Do people really use gimp? The last time I tried it I found it almost impossible to use. Granted this was a few years ago. Would it be worth my time to go back and look at it again?
Many fewer people use it now that they have dropped support for XP SP2.
A glance at the master IANA table here seems to say that the USA got the majority of ipv4 addresses, even though today the majority of devices is elsewhere.
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If OpenOffice paid them $250,000, I'm sure they would be glad to use that instead.
Heck, even the biggest Linux advocate would be silly to turn down that much cash.
Sidecars constructed for performance use automobile wheels and tyres, both for the lateral loading issue and also to put more rubber on the road (motorcycle tyres have a round profile, and put much less rubber on the road than even an economy car tyre).
Terrafugia is missing an idea here - build the "car" with only three wheels, and submit it to DOT as a motorcycle, not a car. Then they can continue to use the bike tyres and wheels, while cutting the cost of running the vehicle (in many states, registering a motorcycle costs much less than a car).
Correct. The field in question is micropayments. Hi-Media and Rentabiliweb are both companies that handle micropayments. The French Wikipedia page for Micropayments used to list both companies. Someone from Hi-Media edited the page, and deleted the name of Rentabiliweb. Court found in favour of Rentabiliweb for 25,000 euros (roughly $36,000). Edit logs from Wikipedia and reverse DNS was the main evidence.
Boy, it sure is a good thing that it's impossible to fake an email, isn't it? Otherwise there would be a huge potential for fraud.
I threw a brick through my TV set back in 1982. I claim prior art.
Any politico worth his salt knows that robocalls, no matter how many and who is talking, do nothing but piss the electorate off at you.
In this case, people from party A were calling supporters of party B, claiming to be from party B. So, if the electorate got pissed at party B, they would consider that a success.
Nobody "invented" the personal computer. Taking an existing product and making it cheaper/faster/smaller/cooler is not "inventing" anything, it is merely developing a better product.
Apple did not "invent" the smartphone, Toyota did not "invent" the hybrid, and Tivo did not "invent" recording video on hard disks either.
Of course it will keep them alive - Nokia will just shift from being an engineering company to being a patent troll. All they need to do now is to get rid of those pesky engineers.
Even if the plane was 100% fiber interconnect - there is still direct interference to the sensor/antenna, and direct interference to the communications equipment itself (which uses copper internally).
And even if you were allowed to have your cell phone turned on - when flying at 40,000 feet, you are *eight miles* or more from the nearest cell phone tower, while sitting inside a Faraday cage. Good luck connecting.
Especially since a camera must be light-tight; a projector, not so much. Legos fit snugly, but aren't light tight.
If very small children can pick up a Nintendo DS or a LeapFrog device and use it with little instruction, then it stands to reason that, all things being equal, the elderly should be able to use a cell phone just as easily
No, it stands to reason that the elderly should be able to use a DS or LeapFrog just as easily. The UI of something like a LeapFrog is designed for its target audience - a 5 year old - and so it is made simple. The UI of a smartphone is also aimed at its target - a 25 year old geek - and may not be usable by non-geeks.
For instance, take the "twistie" UI element on Apple OSes. (The rotating triangle element that expands/collapses other UI elements). Even extremely tech-savvy people often do not understand that one - because (a) it is very non-standard (every other OS uses + and -); and (b) it is non-intuitive (there are no rotating triangles in real life; it is not an analogy for some real-world element).
Thunderbolt is at 10 GB/s per channel giving 20 GB/s total.
s/channel/direction/
e.g. if you are capturing video, you have a max of 10 GB/s for the incoming video data, and 10 GB/s to send "stop" and "play" commands to the device.
NHK (the Japanese broadcaster) has been working on the next generation of HD for 5 years now. 7680 x 4320 resolution, 22.2 channel audio. They already have cameras and have done live broadcasts. http://www.nhk.or.jp/digital/en/technical/02_super.html
Of course, it took over 10 years for HD to make it from being developed until it was a common consumer product, so don't hold your breath. (NHK developed 1080i around about 1980, first commercial broadcasts in Japan 1994, first in USA 1998).
How many people copy music on SD cards? 99.9% of them are used in things like digital cameras. Other than a few VW owners (some models have a SD card slot in the dash connected to the music system) I don't know anyone who would.
Go ahead and tax iPods, which actually *are* used for copying music - but don't try and kill off the photography industry by adding useless taxes.
they own, say, five legal copies then rent them out to five paying customers at a time
If they rent to five customers, and the sixth customer gets a "Sorry" error screen, then that is fine. If they have five legal copies and rent out more than five copies simultaneously, then the MPAA has a perfectly valid case.
For scientists - in fact, *rocket* scientists - they seem to have a strange definition for the word "ocean". This sounds more like a large cave filled with water.
Of *course* your location is important to them. Google is an advertising company; geographically targeted adverising is in high demand.
The issue people have is when Google (or anyone else) collects this data without any consent, and without adequate warning that it is being collected.
Google is also keeping all of the money for itself, and is not passing any of it on to the users who supplied the data. If your smartphone paid you cash for every day you allow them to track your data, people would not be objecting so loudly.
How long until there is an app that intentionally provides bogus location information to the API, and inserts bogus data into the location history files?
Let's see how they muck it up now.
By overselling the concept.
They already mucked it up by putting it in the wrong place. This would be a smart thing to build into Apache (or other web *server*) but pretty pointless to put in a web *browser*.
250 gigs of data is their normal cap across the board.
And that limit is very easy to approach, even on their slowest line, with moderate netflix + gaming. Their penalties for going over 250 are pretty severe.
Do people really use gimp? The last time I tried it I found it almost impossible to use. Granted this was a few years ago. Would it be worth my time to go back and look at it again?
Many fewer people use it now that they have dropped support for XP SP2.
It made Lotus Notes seem like Notepad by comparison
It made the world's worst email program seem like the world's worst text editor?
I'm afraid I can't understand analogies when they don't involve cars.
A glance at the master IANA table here seems to say that the USA got the majority of ipv4 addresses, even though today the majority of devices is elsewhere.
Isn't everyone concerned about security already using hardware encryption - which is higher performance, and built in to almost every hard drive?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hardware-based_full_disk_encryption
The way I read it, a biology teacher could discuss that whites are genetically superior to blacks, without fear of reprisal.
Even for Tennessee, that is going a bit far.