Regardless of this guys "Findings", I can say with certainty that after coding or using my PC's mouse for an extended period of time, my wrist and hand does hurt for a considerable amount of time. I often find that I have to take a time out from using the mouse for a bit during the work day.
I also notice that my hand/wrist does feel a lot better when I take a holiday and have no interaction with a computer for a couple weeks time.
Granted, this evidence is anecdotal, but for me the correlation between the two is clear.
Seriously, we (The good'ol US-of-A) need to get our heads out of out collective asses and off our damn moral high horses and join the rest of the world.
The days are gone when we can get away with what ever we want and I say, thanks freaken god! Some humility is exactly what this country needs IMO. I have been all over the world in my line of work, and I can tell you one thing, people do not like our attitude and I can't blame them for that. Grow up America.
If the ban does go through, those guys better watch their back! I can imagine there are going to be a lot of angry unemployed people out there. 10's or thousands I guess. I can imagine it would be enough to cause a recession. Granted, I do not support such actions, but I can imagine there would be some who would make and attempt to carry out an attempt on their lives.
I guess if this were Russia, the problem would have already "gone away".
No no no,
That equation does not work in a vacuum. The air loss needs something else...namely....air;)
How is it that we can pick up the little tiny signal coming from voyager which went so far beyond us is your equation worked in a vacuum? I guess we would not.
"On a sunny day, the sun could provide all the power necessary with perhaps a capacitor to serve as a battery in case of a cloud"
Hmm,
I seriously doubt that. Granted I am not the world expert in solar power, but I know they are not that efficient. I do have a lot of experience in RC helicopters though. I can tell you that I only get about 10 min out of my 1300 mA LiPo battery flying my smallest Heli around and that provides a TON more power than any solar cell can.
The wings on something so small would need to move extremely fast to keep on course and air born, thus it would require something hi current. Solar does not have this.
Ok, lasers maybe...but whats the point? You have to have LOS with the laser so when you lave LOS to your target anyhow...just take a look yourself with some binocs;)
I dont get how the size of the antenna has anything at all to do with it being near-field.
Near field id the close-in region of an antenna wherein the angular field distribution is dependent upon distance from the antenna.
In other words...its depending on the wavelength of the freq used..so a certain multiple of that length determines what is near field and what is far field.
"Putting them in equatorial geostationary orbits is *much* simpler. You'll lose a small amount of generating time each day (while the station is in Earth's shadow), but if you schedule as much of your maintenance as possible during this time, the effect is minimal."
This seems easy to solve when you use more then one craft. You can use 3 craft. One in geostationary above the US, and two on either side and to the back of the earth a bit farther out so that they are always in few of the sun and the geo craft. Then when the geo is in the shadow, either one of those guys would beam the power to the geo one and we never lose any power. see...easy;)
I know that it is for sure possible to make a little flying robot. Not "so" hard I would even say.
However, what is hard is keeping that little guy with power. I don't think that they have the batteries to power the flight of it, plus the gear to send the pictures back home and not to mention navigation controls.
You could maybe manage 5min max for something so small, assuming it was really really light. I dont think 5 min is a useful time though. Who knows, maybe I am wrong though.
It's always amazing to me that the big guys never even report on stuff like this. You won't even find it on CNN.com. We are in a sad sad state in this country. It's time to take it back.
The heat from what?
If you mean the heat from the sun, that is a simple heat shield away. If you mean the heat generated by the engines, I would think this should be minimal. As the engine would have to be very efficient to achieve such speeds, it would be unlikely in my mind that it would generate large amounts of heat waste.
Actually, that is true. Where I work it would never be possible. One, we have a ton of shielded rooms which are prone to blocking these sorts of things and two, being that it's a testing environment, it would not be advantageous to overload our test equipment with RF from a source we are not trying to measure. I am sure there are several others out there who have their own reasons for not using wireless. Security, risk of dropped connections..ext. I know other companies who have client/server apps which can not handle even small drops in connection and I am sure anyhow who is using wireless has seen their connection drop for a few moments. Perhaps LAN will die someday, but that day is not close.
Well, first by selling this knowledge, but not actually selling the service of unlocking phones, the kid is sidestepping legal issues.
I can imagine that when the kid sold it for much much more, he would have apple's lawyers on him much quicker.
Also, how long do you think he can hold out before someone else makes the same breakthrough. I don't know if you ever noticed, but breakthroughs always seem to happen at the same time. So, why not get a free car.
Plus, if you read about it you would know that he was not hired as a consultant just for the iPhone, but rather to teach his techs to unlock all manner of cells. This is of course worth more money to that company then unlocking the extremely limited number of iphones.
Still needs lots of work.
I say that being a person who switched to Ubuntu from Windows in my home. I have no past experience with Linux other then having to start an app now and again.
The set up went fine and soon enough it was "working"
I say "working" because it was and it wasnt. For example I had to search for hours to properly install the Nvidia driver and get my 1366x168 rez on my monitor (37icn LCD). Being that the primary use was multi-media, I also had to spend literally days trying to get the sound to come from all channels and it still does not work completely.
Over all, I am happy with it, but I have way more patients the average consumer does.
It's just my opinion but I really dont think most people want to deal with things like that. They dont want to have to worry about if you have multiverse repositories are enabled. They want to click something and have it install..not run a command script.
Is Ubuntu better then Windows? In some ways yes, and others not even close. Windows, for the most really does "Just work" and the best part is...I don't need to know how it works;)
That said, I only boot Windows when I need run certain programs or want to play games.
Really makes you wonder what google will add to their maps next.
I was thinking that they will end up linking live video streams similar to the way they have the 1st person intersection photos. I think this must come in the end..There are so many folks out there who will have the iPhone and as we all know you MUST use it with "all you can eat" data plan. So its not a stretch to assume that this could be a feature built into an iphone or any other phone. Just a thought though..plus it would be cool to see whats going on live anywhere at anytime.
Why should I take the camera out of your bathroom if you have nothing to hide? Or..why should I get off this ladder outside your bedroom window if you have nothing to hide?
All kidding aside, these people are morons and there is really no way to reason with an unreasonable moron. My advice, get yourself a camera like I did;)
I mean really.. more then 500 bucks for a game machine? Thats is nuts. I really dont know too many people who spend so much money just to play video games. Yes, I know you can play DVD's on it too, but in my neck of the woods you cant get a blue-ray DVD anyhow...so whats the point?
I know the Xbox is not too much less expensive, but in my mind to most consumers, see these two as basically the same thing except one is expensive and one is obscenely expensive. I know that each system has their fan-boys, but my god! Who spends that much cash to sit in front of the tv? Btw, I am not sitting at a desk writing this..laptop in the garden for not much more then a PS3;)
To me this s pretty funny. Has anyone seen the bot they use in the bomb squad? I mean if you put a machine gun on that thing even a dog in a wheel chair would be able to get away in time.
I think that things like this are not really effect as an actual combat or police platform in terms of hitting your target, but rather provide a heavy scare factor. I can imagine that most people would see it and thing terminator and run like hell rather then walk briskly past it and just push it over which is all it would really take to disable it.
Why would they? They want to share in the revenue from month to month..not just a one time hardware purchase. Think of it more like a pay-for-play model. Apple gets to make 50% off each iphone, then get a certain % of the monthly service fee that the iphones will bring the operators. Normally these phones are heavily subsidized by the operators in america, this is not true at all in EU which is why you can get an unlocked phone. This phone is not subsidized by US carriers, which is why they can afford to give apple a piece of the monthly on top of the cost of the phone. Win Win for apple.
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Regardless of this guys "Findings", I can say with certainty that after coding or using my PC's mouse for an extended period of time, my wrist and hand does hurt for a considerable amount of time. I often find that I have to take a time out from using the mouse for a bit during the work day. I also notice that my hand/wrist does feel a lot better when I take a holiday and have no interaction with a computer for a couple weeks time. Granted, this evidence is anecdotal, but for me the correlation between the two is clear.
Seriously, we (The good'ol US-of-A) need to get our heads out of out collective asses and off our damn moral high horses and join the rest of the world. The days are gone when we can get away with what ever we want and I say, thanks freaken god! Some humility is exactly what this country needs IMO. I have been all over the world in my line of work, and I can tell you one thing, people do not like our attitude and I can't blame them for that. Grow up America.
Finally a way to reliably control my hand held device with no pants on ;)
If the ban does go through, those guys better watch their back! I can imagine there are going to be a lot of angry unemployed people out there. 10's or thousands I guess. I can imagine it would be enough to cause a recession. Granted, I do not support such actions, but I can imagine there would be some who would make and attempt to carry out an attempt on their lives. I guess if this were Russia, the problem would have already "gone away".
No no no, That equation does not work in a vacuum. The air loss needs something else...namely....air ;)
How is it that we can pick up the little tiny signal coming from voyager which went so far beyond us is your equation worked in a vacuum? I guess we would not.
"On a sunny day, the sun could provide all the power necessary with perhaps a capacitor to serve as a battery in case of a cloud" Hmm, I seriously doubt that. Granted I am not the world expert in solar power, but I know they are not that efficient. I do have a lot of experience in RC helicopters though. I can tell you that I only get about 10 min out of my 1300 mA LiPo battery flying my smallest Heli around and that provides a TON more power than any solar cell can. The wings on something so small would need to move extremely fast to keep on course and air born, thus it would require something hi current. Solar does not have this. Ok, lasers maybe...but whats the point? You have to have LOS with the laser so when you lave LOS to your target anyhow...just take a look yourself with some binocs ;)
I dont get how the size of the antenna has anything at all to do with it being near-field. Near field id the close-in region of an antenna wherein the angular field distribution is dependent upon distance from the antenna. In other words...its depending on the wavelength of the freq used..so a certain multiple of that length determines what is near field and what is far field.
"Putting them in equatorial geostationary orbits is *much* simpler. You'll lose a small amount of generating time each day (while the station is in Earth's shadow), but if you schedule as much of your maintenance as possible during this time, the effect is minimal." This seems easy to solve when you use more then one craft. You can use 3 craft. One in geostationary above the US, and two on either side and to the back of the earth a bit farther out so that they are always in few of the sun and the geo craft. Then when the geo is in the shadow, either one of those guys would beam the power to the geo one and we never lose any power. see...easy ;)
I know that it is for sure possible to make a little flying robot. Not "so" hard I would even say. However, what is hard is keeping that little guy with power. I don't think that they have the batteries to power the flight of it, plus the gear to send the pictures back home and not to mention navigation controls. You could maybe manage 5min max for something so small, assuming it was really really light. I dont think 5 min is a useful time though. Who knows, maybe I am wrong though.
It's always amazing to me that the big guys never even report on stuff like this. You won't even find it on CNN.com. We are in a sad sad state in this country. It's time to take it back.
The heat from what? If you mean the heat from the sun, that is a simple heat shield away. If you mean the heat generated by the engines, I would think this should be minimal. As the engine would have to be very efficient to achieve such speeds, it would be unlikely in my mind that it would generate large amounts of heat waste.
Slowing down is a total waste of time! Thats what the Martian atmosphere is for. Plus, we all know NASA is good at those really bouncy airbag balls.
Actually, that is true. Where I work it would never be possible. One, we have a ton of shielded rooms which are prone to blocking these sorts of things and two, being that it's a testing environment, it would not be advantageous to overload our test equipment with RF from a source we are not trying to measure.
I am sure there are several others out there who have their own reasons for not using wireless. Security, risk of dropped connections..ext. I know other companies who have client/server apps which can not handle even small drops in connection and I am sure anyhow who is using wireless has seen their connection drop for a few moments.
Perhaps LAN will die someday, but that day is not close.
Well, first by selling this knowledge, but not actually selling the service of unlocking phones, the kid is sidestepping legal issues. I can imagine that when the kid sold it for much much more, he would have apple's lawyers on him much quicker. Also, how long do you think he can hold out before someone else makes the same breakthrough. I don't know if you ever noticed, but breakthroughs always seem to happen at the same time. So, why not get a free car. Plus, if you read about it you would know that he was not hired as a consultant just for the iPhone, but rather to teach his techs to unlock all manner of cells. This is of course worth more money to that company then unlocking the extremely limited number of iphones.
Duh. You know how hard it would be to drill for oil on mars? They want a reliable source to power the Martian economy.
And who do you think will have the equipent on had to "grow" them...stupid
I can see my house from here!
Time to buy stocks in man made diamonds.
Still needs lots of work. I say that being a person who switched to Ubuntu from Windows in my home. I have no past experience with Linux other then having to start an app now and again. ;)
The set up went fine and soon enough it was "working"
I say "working" because it was and it wasnt. For example I had to search for hours to properly install the Nvidia driver and get my 1366x168 rez on my monitor (37icn LCD). Being that the primary use was multi-media, I also had to spend literally days trying to get the sound to come from all channels and it still does not work completely.
Over all, I am happy with it, but I have way more patients the average consumer does.
It's just my opinion but I really dont think most people want to deal with things like that. They dont want to have to worry about if you have multiverse repositories are enabled. They want to click something and have it install..not run a command script.
Is Ubuntu better then Windows? In some ways yes, and others not even close. Windows, for the most really does "Just work" and the best part is...I don't need to know how it works
That said, I only boot Windows when I need run certain programs or want to play games.
Really makes you wonder what google will add to their maps next.
I was thinking that they will end up linking live video streams similar to the way they have the 1st person intersection photos. I think this must come in the end..There are so many folks out there who will have the iPhone and as we all know you MUST use it with "all you can eat" data plan. So its not a stretch to assume that this could be a feature built into an iphone or any other phone. Just a thought though..plus it would be cool to see whats going on live anywhere at anytime.
Why should I take the camera out of your bathroom if you have nothing to hide? Or..why should I get off this ladder outside your bedroom window if you have nothing to hide? ;)
All kidding aside, these people are morons and there is really no way to reason with an unreasonable moron. My advice, get yourself a camera like I did
I mean really.. more then 500 bucks for a game machine? Thats is nuts. I really dont know too many people who spend so much money just to play video games. Yes, I know you can play DVD's on it too, but in my neck of the woods you cant get a blue-ray DVD anyhow...so whats the point? I know the Xbox is not too much less expensive, but in my mind to most consumers, see these two as basically the same thing except one is expensive and one is obscenely expensive. I know that each system has their fan-boys, but my god! Who spends that much cash to sit in front of the tv? Btw, I am not sitting at a desk writing this..laptop in the garden for not much more then a PS3 ;)
To me this s pretty funny. Has anyone seen the bot they use in the bomb squad? I mean if you put a machine gun on that thing even a dog in a wheel chair would be able to get away in time. I think that things like this are not really effect as an actual combat or police platform in terms of hitting your target, but rather provide a heavy scare factor. I can imagine that most people would see it and thing terminator and run like hell rather then walk briskly past it and just push it over which is all it would really take to disable it.
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Why would they? They want to share in the revenue from month to month..not just a one time hardware purchase. Think of it more like a pay-for-play model. Apple gets to make 50% off each iphone, then get a certain % of the monthly service fee that the iphones will bring the operators. Normally these phones are heavily subsidized by the operators in america, this is not true at all in EU which is why you can get an unlocked phone. This phone is not subsidized by US carriers, which is why they can afford to give apple a piece of the monthly on top of the cost of the phone. Win Win for apple.