In the UK, every channel group has its own app/website. Some work on IOS/android, some on FireTV, some are only browser based. The iPlayer is the best, but it is still pretty bad. It fails to have the smoothness of a netflix or amazon prime user interface.
If you could have a single platform with all the different providers, which would combine content and catch up TV, this could really have an impact. Anything less will be failure.
Your can get robbed, you need to do overnight deposits, employees can be stealing from the register...
A cashless restaurant doesn't have to worry about all this.
I don't know the situation in the US, but I guess it should not be too hard to get a prepaid card and top it up at a local store.
While Google is spinning it as something bad for consumers, this has the potential to be quite a good thing.
Amazon app store should now be possible to have on an android phone without sideloading.
This is against building code regulations in Europe. You cannot have a fully transparent wall or door that people might walk into it.
Usually, you find stripes of frosted glass around the 1.2-1.7 m height, to make sure people don't walk into it.
The Tesla Model S is one of the safest cars on the road.
However, it has the performance of a Ferrari. People are aware of this since it is one the key selling points.
Maybe the car could have a spare key for limited performance settings, if you are going to loan the car to someone else or to a valet parking attendant.
First of all, the Rosetta mission was a joint NASA-ESA mission, where NASA was in charge of providing the power supply. However, the US Congress pulled the funding on the mission and ESA had to do it alone. This was after most of the spacecraft was already designed.
Second, ESA never developed nuclear-powered spacecraft. Even though it is a policy choice due to the fears of blowing up nuclear material in the atmosphere, it is also reflection of a space agency created specifically for non-military purposes. While NASA is also a civilian agency, it has a strong connection with the US military and access to materials such as plutonium.
Third, different Nuclear Power sources in Space (NPS) have to be developed in order to guarantee the availability of the raw material. There is no point in developing a long-term programme based on rare or very hard to obtain nuclear materials.
For many years professors in natural sciences have been adjusting test scores to match Gaussian distribution.
Typically, you decide on the average and then adjust the shape accordingly.
Most professors would go for a 12 points (60%) out of 20 average and a standard deviation of around 3 points (15%). Every student below 10 points (50%) would fail the class.
After that, you rank the questions from easy to hard, according to the scores obtained for each.
Initially, you a award the same weight for each question. If the test was designed properly, this should create a Gaussian distribution.
If not, different weights within a range (e.g. 0.8 to 1.25) for the questions can be adjusted until it matches the Gaussian distribution.
I doesn't solve the problem of easy classes competing with difficult ones but it solves the problem of grade inflation.
First you need to mention where you are exactly. Internet service over satellite is usually sold through local providers. Furthermore, different satellites have different coverage areas.
Second, if you want high speed broadband, you will need a Ku/Ka band (small antennas) satellite terminal. The problem is that in South America, it is more common to use C band (big antennas) satellite terminals that are slower than Ku band since the spectral bandwidth is smaller and more expensive.
Third, the latency is basically the same for all Geostationary satellites and in practical terms is about 250ms from the transmission latency and 150ms for the latency of the entire transmission chain. As systems improve, this latency gets reduced but the transmission latency only depends on the relative position of the terminal to the satellite and the speed of light.
Forth, above 70C latitude it is not possible to provide Internet over satellite with geostationary orbit since there isn't enough visibility of the satellite on the horizon.
This is old news!
The Dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) is a set of protocols and standards for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure communications.
The lower layers in the protocol stack are defined by the 802.11p standard, which is a modified version for the 802.11a for vehicular environments and it operates in the 5.9 GHz band.
The higher layers are defined by the Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) stack, for messaging and control, and the IPv6 stack for applications and services.
There are already commercial DSRC radios and lots applications have been developed in the ITS research community.
For instance, the See-Through System: an overtaking assistance system http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esh1EjgBQaI
There are two possible technologies (among other similar ones)
With DVB-S2/RCS you have a bidirectional satellite system that requires a 1.2 meter dish antenna and a satellite terminal composed of an indoor unit (about the size of a bulky cable-modem) and an outdoor unit (transmitter and receiver horn mounted on the focus point of the satellite dish. This costs around US$1000 dollars and it takes about 30min to install (if you are an experienced installer).
With BGAN you have a very portable terminal (about the size of a netbook) that only requires you to point it in the general vicinity of the satellite location in the horizon.
Both systems use GEO (geostationary) satellites, which means that they have a fixed location in the horizon. They are actually located over the equator (0Â latitude) and they orbit the earth in 24h cycles, thus appearing to be stationary.
With DVB-S2/RCS you can have a 50Mbit/s in the downlink, although most services provide less than 10Mbit/s. The usually upload speed is 1Mbit/s. This speeds are shared between all terminals within a beam (similar to Internet over cable, where you share your Internet within a residential area of about 1000 persons).
With BGAN you only have 492Kbit/s in both the downlink and uplink. On the other hand, it is designed for mobility.
"It is common to argue that intellectual property in the form of copyright and patent is necessary for the innovation and creation of ideas and inventions such as machines, drugs, computer software, books, music, literature and movies. In fact intellectual property is not like ordinary property at all, but constitutes a government grant of a costly and dangerous private monopoly over ideas. We show through theory and example that intellectual monopoly is not necessary for innovation and as a practical matter is damaging to growth, prosperity and liberty."
Buy the Magellan laptop (Magalhaes) that is based on the Intel Classmate framework. This computer is being supplied to every child in Portugal from the ages of 6-10. It's a very robust laptop that keeps working after more than 1 meter (3 feet) falls. However, you should analyze if 2 years-old isn't a bit too soon to have a laptop.
That is the nature of the Internet satellite business. The quality-of-service is dependent of the traffic from other terminals, since it is a shared service.
The only solution to this problem is to try to secure some premium class traffic for sending VoIP and have the border gateway properly configured to mark VoIP packets accordingly.
The rest of the traffic should be served as Best Effort, in order to save money.
KDE 4 is clearly the most future-proof desktop environment out there.
In terms of graphic capabilities, it can natively suppport every feature available on OSX and in Vista, besides a few new features that are unique to KDE 4. In theory, it would be possible to create a desktop that looks-and-feels EXACTLY like OSX or Vista.
However, the best features are not those, but rather the platform independence with native API support. This means that, unlike JAVA, you can create one piece of software that compiles in Linux, OSX and Windows, using the OS-specific APIs. So, the same software compiled in OSX and in Windows look completely different and they didn't have a single line of code changed.
The platform independence is not available for everything... for now, you can only compile things like Openoffice. However, the multimedia API, as well as other APIs are being developed.
The other thing great about KDE4 is that it is done with SVG instead of bitmaps. This means that scaling to very small devices like smartphones is quite simple to achieve.
The IEEE and Wiley (the ones I have experience with) are bastards. They charge money for doing almost nothing.
The most important part is peer-review and it is always done for free. I don't know if they even pay the editor, but from my experience, this is also done for free.
They have very little work, mostly some minor desktop publishing work, since when you submit the work, it is already in their preferred format.
There are some publishing houses that are going for open and free access. Furthermore, I know that in the Netherlands is now mandatory to provide free access to all published scientific work. I don't know the details but it is a great initiative.
As a final note, most scientific work is funded by public funds and these publishing houses are reaping profits from this public funding.
Metallica is a T-Rex. No-one listens to Metallica anymore and that is why they want to go 'free'. They think that if they go 'free' people will start listening to them again.
The day Lars testified before congress in his expensive suit and tie, two things could happen: - Hell would freeze.
... or....
- Metallica was over as a band that meant something
Simply because it is cool! The Smart is the equivalent of the MAC.
It is mostly used by young people that creativity related careers like architects and designers.
It is also quite common as a company car for innovative dynamic companies.
Besides, you can park perpendicularly in a street that only allows parallel parking.
Slashdot Mirror
In the UK, every channel group has its own app/website. Some work on IOS/android, some on FireTV, some are only browser based. The iPlayer is the best, but it is still pretty bad. It fails to have the smoothness of a netflix or amazon prime user interface. If you could have a single platform with all the different providers, which would combine content and catch up TV, this could really have an impact. Anything less will be failure.
Your can get robbed, you need to do overnight deposits, employees can be stealing from the register... A cashless restaurant doesn't have to worry about all this. I don't know the situation in the US, but I guess it should not be too hard to get a prepaid card and top it up at a local store.
While Google is spinning it as something bad for consumers, this has the potential to be quite a good thing. Amazon app store should now be possible to have on an android phone without sideloading.
The Winamp is like the Nokia brand for Europeans. There is a mix of nostalgia and trust associated with the brand.
Paying 92.5£/MWh for nuclear (Hinkley Point C) is peanuts in comparison with the 195£/MWh for the offshore wind farms.
This is against building code regulations in Europe. You cannot have a fully transparent wall or door that people might walk into it. Usually, you find stripes of frosted glass around the 1.2-1.7 m height, to make sure people don't walk into it.
I am sure it is just bad journalism. Most likely was 802.11p at 5.9 GHz, using DSRC standard, with is the standard for vehicular communications.
If objectives are being met, it doesn't really matter. Jobs can lack the challenge or sometimes they have plenty of down time.
The Tesla Model S is one of the safest cars on the road.
However, it has the performance of a Ferrari. People are aware of this since it is one the key selling points.
Maybe the car could have a spare key for limited performance settings, if you are going to loan the car to someone else or to a valet parking attendant.
In any case, drinking and driving is inexcusable.
The A-10 shares more in common with the Super Tucano than with the F-35.
My experience is that I rarely have any phone signal when I walk into any pub or restaurant outside London. Luckily most places have free Wi-Fi.
First of all, the Rosetta mission was a joint NASA-ESA mission, where NASA was in charge of providing the power supply. However, the US Congress pulled the funding on the mission and ESA had to do it alone. This was after most of the spacecraft was already designed.
Second, ESA never developed nuclear-powered spacecraft. Even though it is a policy choice due to the fears of blowing up nuclear material in the atmosphere, it is also reflection of a space agency created specifically for non-military purposes. While NASA is also a civilian agency, it has a strong connection with the US military and access to materials such as plutonium.
Third, different Nuclear Power sources in Space (NPS) have to be developed in order to guarantee the availability of the raw material. There is no point in developing a long-term programme based on rare or very hard to obtain nuclear materials.
For many years professors in natural sciences have been adjusting test scores to match Gaussian distribution.
Typically, you decide on the average and then adjust the shape accordingly.
Most professors would go for a 12 points (60%) out of 20 average and a standard deviation of around 3 points (15%). Every student below 10 points (50%) would fail the class.
After that, you rank the questions from easy to hard, according to the scores obtained for each.
Initially, you a award the same weight for each question. If the test was designed properly, this should create a Gaussian distribution.
If not, different weights within a range (e.g. 0.8 to 1.25) for the questions can be adjusted until it matches the Gaussian distribution.
I doesn't solve the problem of easy classes competing with difficult ones but it solves the problem of grade inflation.
First you need to mention where you are exactly. Internet service over satellite is usually sold through local providers. Furthermore, different satellites have different coverage areas.
Second, if you want high speed broadband, you will need a Ku/Ka band (small antennas) satellite terminal. The problem is that in South America, it is more common to use C band (big antennas) satellite terminals that are slower than Ku band since the spectral bandwidth is smaller and more expensive.
Third, the latency is basically the same for all Geostationary satellites and in practical terms is about 250ms from the transmission latency and 150ms for the latency of the entire transmission chain. As systems improve, this latency gets reduced but the transmission latency only depends on the relative position of the terminal to the satellite and the speed of light.
Forth, above 70C latitude it is not possible to provide Internet over satellite with geostationary orbit since there isn't enough visibility of the satellite on the horizon.
This is old news!
The Dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) is a set of protocols and standards for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure communications.
The lower layers in the protocol stack are defined by the 802.11p standard, which is a modified version for the 802.11a for vehicular environments and it operates in the 5.9 GHz band.
The higher layers are defined by the Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) stack, for messaging and control, and the IPv6 stack for applications and services.
There are already commercial DSRC radios and lots applications have been developed in the ITS research community. For instance, the See-Through System: an overtaking assistance system http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esh1EjgBQaI
slashdotted already?
Any mirror or a proper link?
There are two possible technologies (among other similar ones)
With DVB-S2/RCS you have a bidirectional satellite system that requires a 1.2 meter dish antenna and a satellite terminal composed of an indoor unit (about the size of a bulky cable-modem) and an outdoor unit (transmitter and receiver horn mounted on the focus point of the satellite dish. This costs around US$1000 dollars and it takes about 30min to install (if you are an experienced installer).
With BGAN you have a very portable terminal (about the size of a netbook) that only requires you to point it in the general vicinity of the satellite location in the horizon.
Both systems use GEO (geostationary) satellites, which means that they have a fixed location in the horizon. They are actually located over the equator (0Â latitude) and they orbit the earth in 24h cycles, thus appearing to be stationary.
With DVB-S2/RCS you can have a 50Mbit/s in the downlink, although most services provide less than 10Mbit/s. The usually upload speed is 1Mbit/s. This speeds are shared between all terminals within a beam (similar to Internet over cable, where you share your Internet within a residential area of about 1000 persons).
With BGAN you only have 492Kbit/s in both the downlink and uplink. On the other hand, it is designed for mobility.
"It is common to argue that intellectual property in the form of copyright and patent is necessary for the innovation and creation of ideas and inventions such as machines, drugs, computer software, books, music, literature and movies. In fact intellectual property is not like ordinary property at all, but constitutes a government grant of a costly and dangerous private monopoly over ideas. We show through theory and example that intellectual monopoly is not necessary for innovation and as a practical matter is damaging to growth, prosperity and liberty."
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstnew.htm
Buy the Magellan laptop (Magalhaes) that is based on the Intel Classmate framework. This computer is being supplied to every child in Portugal from the ages of 6-10. It's a very robust laptop that keeps working after more than 1 meter (3 feet) falls.
However, you should analyze if 2 years-old isn't a bit too soon to have a laptop.
He should be given a computer and internet access so that he can continue working... now that he doesn't have to worry about the outside world.
That is the nature of the Internet satellite business. The quality-of-service is dependent of the traffic from other terminals, since it is a shared service.
The only solution to this problem is to try to secure some premium class traffic for sending VoIP and have the border gateway properly configured to mark VoIP packets accordingly. The rest of the traffic should be served as Best Effort, in order to save money.
KDE 4 is clearly the most future-proof desktop environment out there.
In terms of graphic capabilities, it can natively suppport every feature available on OSX and in Vista, besides a few new features that are unique to KDE 4. In theory, it would be possible to create a desktop that looks-and-feels EXACTLY like OSX or Vista.
However, the best features are not those, but rather the platform independence with native API support. This means that, unlike JAVA, you can create one piece of software that compiles in Linux, OSX and Windows, using the OS-specific APIs. So, the same software compiled in OSX and in Windows look completely different and they didn't have a single line of code changed. The platform independence is not available for everything... for now, you can only compile things like Openoffice. However, the multimedia API, as well as other APIs are being developed.
The other thing great about KDE4 is that it is done with SVG instead of bitmaps. This means that scaling to very small devices like smartphones is quite simple to achieve.
The IEEE and Wiley (the ones I have experience with) are bastards. They charge money for doing almost nothing.
The most important part is peer-review and it is always done for free. I don't know if they even pay the editor, but from my experience, this is also done for free.
They have very little work, mostly some minor desktop publishing work, since when you submit the work, it is already in their preferred format.
There are some publishing houses that are going for open and free access. Furthermore, I know that in the Netherlands is now mandatory to provide free access to all published scientific work. I don't know the details but it is a great initiative.
As a final note, most scientific work is funded by public funds and these publishing houses are reaping profits from this public funding.
Metallica is a T-Rex. No-one listens to Metallica anymore and that is why they want to go 'free'.
They think that if they go 'free' people will start listening to them again.
The day Lars testified before congress in his expensive suit and tie, two things could happen:
- Hell would freeze.
... or....
- Metallica was over as a band that meant something
They are so looser sell-outs.
Simply because it is cool! The Smart is the equivalent of the MAC.
It is mostly used by young people that creativity related careers like architects and designers. It is also quite common as a company car for innovative dynamic companies.
Besides, you can park perpendicularly in a street that only allows parallel parking.