If it uses the recent battery charging spec, each port can allow 1.5A if there is little to no data traffic (and 1.8A if the data connectors at the female port is shorted with up to 200 ohm resistance).
With the recent interest in using USB as a universal charger port, there is also a added spec for 2.0 and later that allows upto 1.5A if there is little to no traffic on the port in question.
As i think was mentioned, they could get the legal equivalent performed by a government official. And i suspect that Finland, like Norway, has a atheist society that can provide non-religious events if one is interested.
The thing about marriage as a ritual is that it holds a whole lot of unspoken content. Not only does it bind two people, it binds two family lines. And as it dates from a time where genetic testing was a unknown, the need for the testable party staying virgin until the performed ritual became important for issues of inheritance. And as was pointed out to me recently, the taboo on incest may have more to do with said binding of families then anything biological. If one can create a tie to someone in control of distant resources, one do well to stop ones family members from tying themselves up locally.
Thing is that we have seen more change in these areas in the last 200 years or so, then in the previous 1800+ that came before them. As such we have the, questionable, privilege of witnessing history being made.
Indeed, tho only i and the person i "greet" have a say if its performance. With marriage, there is a third party, fully disconnected from either the two being joined or their families, that insist on having a say in the rituals performance or refusal of such.
Metered broadband is a abomination that can not be justified by logic in any way.
water and electricity can be metered because the source can be emptied, never so with data.
At best, data metering is a holdover from analog phones. As calls required a physical wire pair between callers, and long distance wires where few, metering the call length kept calls short. And with telcos being the foremost operator of ISPs these days, it is likely that the attitude have been carried over. Sadly it as about as misplaced as the negative reactions the telcos graybeard engineers had when they first where told the specifics of packet switching.
Basically, most home net connections are by contract, best effort. By adding metering on top of that adds insult to injury, as the user will perhaps see his connection max out once in a blue moon anyways. This thanks to ISP over-subscription of the backbone connection out of the local area.
And much of that was available on the Sony Ericsson T610 i got back in 2003/2004 (a featurephone). Bluetooth on US sold phones have been raped by carriers for ages, and is one reason why Nokia is a virtual no show in that market (they refused to let the carriers neuter phone features like voip and bluetooth).
And this is why i groan each time i read a US tech blog talking about mobile tech from a US == world perspective...
And then there is the extra utility of the obex related profiles vs trying to pull a file transfer over wifi. Even with ad-hoc one have to configure tcp/ip and some kind of transfer protocol that both parties can handle (ftp, http, smb, perhaps ssh, are likely candidates). With obex its basically a issue of pairing and send (or even just send, in the case of single files quote often).
That Apple (and some carriers like Verizon) loves to neuter Bluetooth makes a whole lot of people, and tech bloggers, think that all it is good for is the earpiece.
Makes think of their "special" macbook air optical drive that was basically you bog standard usb optical drive with a custom firmware to pull a Apple handshake. Its because shit like that i forgo anything Apple.
Conflicts are always a problem, especially when one can not read the other "players".
I wonder how much road rage comes from being unable to enter a dialog with the other drivers, pedestrians and so on. That is, the only communication available between them are various crude signaling devices that tell the others nothing about long term intent, reasoning or similar.
It strikes me that it could be interesting to run a experiment where drivers where put into simulators and equipped some way to have verbal communication with the driver of the virtual vehicle in front and behind. This to make communication and coordination easier. It could perhaps reduce road rage, tho i guess it could also end up with mmo like carpet f-bombs for the slightest of defensive driving.
Btw. Think about all this brings to mind a recent article stating that drunk people are more likely to read intent into actions that have none. And related to that my attention was brought to a related finding that we humans tend to give inanimate objects both a mind and a intent, especially when stressed. As such, we make very poor judges of rapidly unfolding events.
And how exactly would that distract the computer? The code that read sensors and controls the car have nothing to do with the updater, unless the user in his infinite intelligence decides to perform the update while in motion. And whoever allowed that to happen, rather then be cued up for the next time the car is started or similar, should be taken out behind the office and bludgeoned to death with a steel maxi-tower. If one insist on doing critical update over the air in the first place, rather then trigger a generic "stop by a garage for a tune up" message.
Is that one one of those psychological evaluation tests? The kind where most freeze up over indecision? About the only thing without emotional attachments present is the ball. Still, equip the system with IR sensors. Then have it prioritize the avoidance of anything with a heat signature within the range of a living being. I will however claim that by the time a human have decided, the car have hit one of them at random.
As for reading signs. I suspect that by the time these kinds of systems become common, the signs are augmented with wireless data feeds specifically for the "autopilot".
And am unsure about your claim that driving "personalities" equals emotions. Unless strategy game AI can be considered emotional as they use similar "personalities" when prioritizing options.
How so? why not drill passive RFID into the road-bed that tells the car what lane it is in, what the speed limit is and so on?
Hell, these could be deployed by a maintenance truck driving up the lane, drilling a hole and shooting down a marker ever so often.
A cars sensors do not in any way have to conform to the limitations of the human sensory organs.
a radar or lidar in the front, and it can detect and respond to objects appearing in the path of travel. There is no need for it to be able to tell the different between a kid, a ball or a animal. Only that there is a object there at is in, or will cross travel path, if it maintains the current direction and speed. This is something various radar systems have been doing with aircrafts for decades already, at much longer ranges than what is needed for the usual traffic situations.
And the biggest win would be that you can in no way distract a computer. A screaming kid in the back seat, changing channel or song on the multimedia system, conversations with other passengers or callers on mobile phones. All those are distractions that can have fatal consequences if it happens at the wrong time.
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If it uses the recent battery charging spec, each port can allow 1.5A if there is little to no data traffic (and 1.8A if the data connectors at the female port is shorted with up to 200 ohm resistance).
Err, no. If the hub is powered, it should be capable of delivering .5A to each port.
If not, then the dual plug cables we see for some external drives would be useless.
With the recent interest in using USB as a universal charger port, there is also a added spec for 2.0 and later that allows upto 1.5A if there is little to no traffic on the port in question.
As i think was mentioned, they could get the legal equivalent performed by a government official. And i suspect that Finland, like Norway, has a atheist society that can provide non-religious events if one is interested.
The thing about marriage as a ritual is that it holds a whole lot of unspoken content. Not only does it bind two people, it binds two family lines. And as it dates from a time where genetic testing was a unknown, the need for the testable party staying virgin until the performed ritual became important for issues of inheritance. And as was pointed out to me recently, the taboo on incest may have more to do with said binding of families then anything biological. If one can create a tie to someone in control of distant resources, one do well to stop ones family members from tying themselves up locally.
Thing is that we have seen more change in these areas in the last 200 years or so, then in the previous 1800+ that came before them. As such we have the, questionable, privilege of witnessing history being made.
Because the status quo results in a, for them, positive money flow. Change is in essence uncertain. This is the root of the innovators dilemma.
Whats to say the corporation would not at the time have picked up a inertia all its own?
Or are we hoping that stockholders manage to make the whole new "empire" more liberal given time?
I find the latter unlikely, as stockholders appear to be conservative by pure existence.
Indeed, tho only i and the person i "greet" have a say if its performance. With marriage, there is a third party, fully disconnected from either the two being joined or their families, that insist on having a say in the rituals performance or refusal of such.
Ah yes, my bad. I forgot that much of the local religious rituals where absorbed from older "pagan" ones.
(You can kind of get a marriage-like thing from the government, but it's legally not the same thing.)
Because of ritual or because of legal content? If its because of ritual then i would say to get over it, as rituals can be remade.
That is the last hold of religion, the performance of rituals.
Goldman Sachs = USA, the guys in the article = Norway. I can't say for sure, but it could be that Norway may have stricter trading laws.
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Metered broadband is a abomination that can not be justified by logic in any way.
water and electricity can be metered because the source can be emptied, never so with data.
At best, data metering is a holdover from analog phones. As calls required a physical wire pair between callers, and long distance wires where few, metering the call length kept calls short. And with telcos being the foremost operator of ISPs these days, it is likely that the attitude have been carried over. Sadly it as about as misplaced as the negative reactions the telcos graybeard engineers had when they first where told the specifics of packet switching.
Basically, most home net connections are by contract, best effort. By adding metering on top of that adds insult to injury, as the user will perhaps see his connection max out once in a blue moon anyways. This thanks to ISP over-subscription of the backbone connection out of the local area.
electricity (or the fuel driving the turbine at least) can be used up. Bandwidth can only be saturated.
Careful, there i a large group of people that would claim that the king james one is the only one.
Heh, i never liked the "trusted" (by who exactly?) computing thing so don't bunch me with whoever your talking about.
And much of that was available on the Sony Ericsson T610 i got back in 2003/2004 (a featurephone). Bluetooth on US sold phones have been raped by carriers for ages, and is one reason why Nokia is a virtual no show in that market (they refused to let the carriers neuter phone features like voip and bluetooth).
And this is why i groan each time i read a US tech blog talking about mobile tech from a US == world perspective...
So its not just a case of opening up for serial data over bluetooth, one need a special "handshake" chip at the other end?
And people wonder why i have no love for Apple...
And then there is the extra utility of the obex related profiles vs trying to pull a file transfer over wifi. Even with ad-hoc one have to configure tcp/ip and some kind of transfer protocol that both parties can handle (ftp, http, smb, perhaps ssh, are likely candidates). With obex its basically a issue of pairing and send (or even just send, in the case of single files quote often).
That Apple (and some carriers like Verizon) loves to neuter Bluetooth makes a whole lot of people, and tech bloggers, think that all it is good for is the earpiece.
Makes think of their "special" macbook air optical drive that was basically you bog standard usb optical drive with a custom firmware to pull a Apple handshake. Its because shit like that i forgo anything Apple.
Conflicts are always a problem, especially when one can not read the other "players".
I wonder how much road rage comes from being unable to enter a dialog with the other drivers, pedestrians and so on. That is, the only communication available between them are various crude signaling devices that tell the others nothing about long term intent, reasoning or similar.
It strikes me that it could be interesting to run a experiment where drivers where put into simulators and equipped some way to have verbal communication with the driver of the virtual vehicle in front and behind. This to make communication and coordination easier. It could perhaps reduce road rage, tho i guess it could also end up with mmo like carpet f-bombs for the slightest of defensive driving.
Btw. Think about all this brings to mind a recent article stating that drunk people are more likely to read intent into actions that have none. And related to that my attention was brought to a related finding that we humans tend to give inanimate objects both a mind and a intent, especially when stressed. As such, we make very poor judges of rapidly unfolding events.
And how exactly would that distract the computer? The code that read sensors and controls the car have nothing to do with the updater, unless the user in his infinite intelligence decides to perform the update while in motion. And whoever allowed that to happen, rather then be cued up for the next time the car is started or similar, should be taken out behind the office and bludgeoned to death with a steel maxi-tower. If one insist on doing critical update over the air in the first place, rather then trigger a generic "stop by a garage for a tune up" message.
Much of the issue exist because people insist on maintaining lawns that have no place in deserts.
Is that one one of those psychological evaluation tests? The kind where most freeze up over indecision? About the only thing without emotional attachments present is the ball. Still, equip the system with IR sensors. Then have it prioritize the avoidance of anything with a heat signature within the range of a living being. I will however claim that by the time a human have decided, the car have hit one of them at random.
As for reading signs. I suspect that by the time these kinds of systems become common, the signs are augmented with wireless data feeds specifically for the "autopilot".
And am unsure about your claim that driving "personalities" equals emotions. Unless strategy game AI can be considered emotional as they use similar "personalities" when prioritizing options.
I thought the AI ways had moved beyond trying to program for every conceivable event the AI may encounter.
How so? why not drill passive RFID into the road-bed that tells the car what lane it is in, what the speed limit is and so on?
Hell, these could be deployed by a maintenance truck driving up the lane, drilling a hole and shooting down a marker ever so often.
A cars sensors do not in any way have to conform to the limitations of the human sensory organs.
a radar or lidar in the front, and it can detect and respond to objects appearing in the path of travel. There is no need for it to be able to tell the different between a kid, a ball or a animal. Only that there is a object there at is in, or will cross travel path, if it maintains the current direction and speed. This is something various radar systems have been doing with aircrafts for decades already, at much longer ranges than what is needed for the usual traffic situations.
And the biggest win would be that you can in no way distract a computer. A screaming kid in the back seat, changing channel or song on the multimedia system, conversations with other passengers or callers on mobile phones. All those are distractions that can have fatal consequences if it happens at the wrong time.