It prohbits governmental agencies (cities, counties, etc.) from becoming telecom providers.
Actually no, RTFA. The ruling allows state governments to create laws that prevent local governments (counties, cities, towns, etc) from becoming telcom providers. If no such state law exists, the local governments can start up all the telcos they want. Only a handful of states have these types of laws on the book.
Yes.... so long as the receiver's output doesn't use @$#%$ macrovision. The broadcast flag is mainly there to prevent high quality exact digital recordings that would then get traded on the internet. Time shifting is still allowed (like a PVR such as a TiVo), just not redistribution. We hope.
Sure, yes we are being bombarded by radiation from the sun (although check out those melanoma rates in Australia...) and I am not worried about the radiation spewed out by a properly functioning plane. What happens when a mistake happens (and it will) and the reactor core of uranium and/or plutonium comes falling from the sky? If nuclear power was so safe this would not happen, and that bad boy was sitting still when the shit hit the fan. Image the fallout if a plane had an accident at mach 8 at 200,000 feet?
Now this assumes a fission reactor, what was the power source had you imagined? Last I checked controlled fusion was not feasible with todays tech.
You'd better pray that it all goes A-OK with that nuclear thermal powered space plane, otherwise all them fish stick are going to be glowing green.
Given human's track record with operating vehicles, I'm not sure we'd want nuclear reactors flying around. Maybe in space, fine, but ferrying people to and from LEO? Get me a space elevator and then we can get stuff up to GEO.
I think this author,probably in the pay of microsoft, is planting a story anticipating the near term price fall of apple stock to make himeslef look good and maybe stimie apples encroachment on windowns in the enterprise world.
Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity, or something like that.
Sand. At UC Santa Cruz while working at the help desk I recovered quite a few disks that had sand in them (with them saying "Its my only copy of my thesis, it was in my bag at the beach!"). I would take apart the disk, take out the actual disk and then put it in a new disks case. I would then (assuming the heat hadn't killed it) be able to recover most of the documents.
Thinking Machines supercomputers had that. A light for each CPU blinking on and off. Useful in a macroscopic way I would guess as a measure of load, but I'm not sure how useful it actually was.
When traveling cables are always needed. Every device needs a cable to charge (try as he might Tesla didn't quite perfect wireless power transmission) and some hotels broadband is either 100BT or (gads) 56k dialup.
what is wrong with current PDAs though? Modern Palms, Zaruses (any ideas on the plural of the Zarus?) and PocketPCs are not as elegant as a newton but have quite the range of functionality now. I know for the PocketPC there is VoIP software, web serving software, photoediting software and many of them have built cameras, dual wireless, not to mention music and movie playback.
As a side note, be sure to have enough power (circuits and outlets) in every room, even rooms where you have no plans for power hungry devices. Spare bedrooms can turn into a server room before you know it.
Easy: they are not implemented the same. Apple will spend much more time and money tweaking G4/5 + Velocity Engine encoding than x86 encoding. That and as some one else said the test did not use the $200+ pro version.
-chris
Be careful, it is fiction for a reason and where the line between research and story is not always crystal clear. Just like TV, there are good books and bad books and it takes a discerning reader/viewer to make good choices.
Now I am not a physicist or a chemist so this really exposes my ignorance but... what effects would doing this in a zero-g have? No need for a container to keep the spherical shape, this would aide in outgassing. Not sure how to supply the stream of bubbles, but if they could be introduced right to the center somehow, they would not move from there until they were 'ignited'.
I don't disagree with the statement that wideband signals, when pushed through a long, unshielded wire, radiate. I just don't want to assume that this radiation causes significant interference until we have more studies/testing. Did the poster reference any studies that say it does? No, he just said we should assume it interferes, the referenced study is crap and blindly ignore this potentially good technology. Who is the asshole? If we don't keep an open mind, we are screwed. I know that FEMA and other groups will have a say in this and do studies that will be biased to their interests, but until then I will not rush to judgment and say a new technology is crap and we should just ignore it.
Am I an asshole for saying that the poster should keep an open mind? Maybe I should have been more careful with my wording:
Perhaps you'd like an experiment to see if water freezes when you cool it?
Well, people do experiment with this, and call it supercooling when the water doesn't freeze. Sometimes obvious things are not that obvious and more research is needed before leaping to confusion.
Trying to get people to think rather than have knee jerk reactions and stick their head in the sand is hard work.
FEMA could lay it down... they use the same frequencies and have the bucks and the authority to do something. The already filed comments saying it has the potential to interfere.
I also believe that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (part of the U.S. Department of Commerce) is doing their own study.
Yes, but over here in our little corner of the universe we like to call "Rational Land," scientific "studies" conducted by for-profit organizations, especially when such studies appear to benefit said organizations, are considered highly suspect until corroborated by external researchers.
And with out other studies that contradict it we should assume that it is bull? You think that we should assume the worst and condemn a study that does not agree with your preconceived uncorroborated notions?
If you have real evidence that disproves the study, feel free to educate the rest of us, but without that your comment was neither constructive, helpful nor insightful.
There was a study done that studies what happens when malpractice pay-outs capped ( this capping was proposed by Bush in Jan.). It found that malpractice insurance rates went up. It took actually capping the the rates to keep it down, see this Consumer Watchdog study and this Time Magazine study. Even a GAO study (Sorry for the PDF) found that torte reform would not keep rates down.
Note that I am for torte reform, but it appears that in this case it is not the lawsuits that are driving up the insurance costs but rather cycles in the malpractice insurance market itself.
Now by 'American' do you include Canada? That plane was an Air Canada flying from a Canadian city (Montreal) to an other Canadian city (Edmonton) and was fueled by Canadians and only occurred because they were switching from imperial to metric. If they had kept the metric system they would not have had the incident in the first place.
I doubt that is the reason, otherwise all of those wireless modems would be illegal. More likely has to do with the TV side of the dish rather than the data side - I know DirectTV and DISH have rules that are probably related to what TV stations you see and what TV markets you are in.
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Actually no, RTFA. The ruling allows state governments to create laws that prevent local governments (counties, cities, towns, etc) from becoming telcom providers. If no such state law exists, the local governments can start up all the telcos they want. Only a handful of states have these types of laws on the book.
Yes.... so long as the receiver's output doesn't use @$#%$ macrovision. The broadcast flag is mainly there to prevent high quality exact digital recordings that would then get traded on the internet. Time shifting is still allowed (like a PVR such as a TiVo), just not redistribution. We hope.
Now this assumes a fission reactor, what was the power source had you imagined? Last I checked controlled fusion was not feasible with todays tech.
And about as loud as a huey starting up.
Given human's track record with operating vehicles, I'm not sure we'd want nuclear reactors flying around. Maybe in space, fine, but ferrying people to and from LEO? Get me a space elevator and then we can get stuff up to GEO.
Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity, or something like that.
You haven't ordered a dell recently have you?
I have noticed in the past that some smaller independent dealers will let you play with the phones.
Good luck
I would think it would require some way of placing the muon detector under whatever it is evaluating as the free muon source is above.
Sand. At UC Santa Cruz while working at the help desk I recovered quite a few disks that had sand in them (with them saying "Its my only copy of my thesis, it was in my bag at the beach!"). I would take apart the disk, take out the actual disk and then put it in a new disks case. I would then (assuming the heat hadn't killed it) be able to recover most of the documents.
Thinking Machines supercomputers had that. A light for each CPU blinking on and off. Useful in a macroscopic way I would guess as a measure of load, but I'm not sure how useful it actually was.
what is wrong with current PDAs though? Modern Palms, Zaruses (any ideas on the plural of the Zarus?) and PocketPCs are not as elegant as a newton but have quite the range of functionality now. I know for the PocketPC there is VoIP software, web serving software, photoediting software and many of them have built cameras, dual wireless, not to mention music and movie playback.
As a side note, be sure to have enough power (circuits and outlets) in every room, even rooms where you have no plans for power hungry devices. Spare bedrooms can turn into a server room before you know it.
Don't forget that speed is also important for bragging rights and computer platform holy wars.
Easy: they are not implemented the same. Apple will spend much more time and money tweaking G4/5 + Velocity Engine encoding than x86 encoding. That and as some one else said the test did not use the $200+ pro version. -chris
Be careful, it is fiction for a reason and where the line between research and story is not always crystal clear. Just like TV, there are good books and bad books and it takes a discerning reader/viewer to make good choices.
Now I am not a physicist or a chemist so this really exposes my ignorance but... what effects would doing this in a zero-g have? No need for a container to keep the spherical shape, this would aide in outgassing. Not sure how to supply the stream of bubbles, but if they could be introduced right to the center somehow, they would not move from there until they were 'ignited'.
Am I an asshole for saying that the poster should keep an open mind? Maybe I should have been more careful with my wording:
Perhaps you'd like an experiment to see if water freezes when you cool it?
Well, people do experiment with this, and call it supercooling when the water doesn't freeze. Sometimes obvious things are not that obvious and more research is needed before leaping to confusion.
Trying to get people to think rather than have knee jerk reactions and stick their head in the sand is hard work.
Water doesn't always freeze when you cool it. It will not freeze if you supercool it. Any other 'stupid' questions you want to ask?
FEMA could lay it down... they use the same frequencies and have the bucks and the authority to do something. The already filed comments saying it has the potential to interfere.
I also believe that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (part of the U.S. Department of Commerce) is doing their own study.
And with out other studies that contradict it we should assume that it is bull? You think that we should assume the worst and condemn a study that does not agree with your preconceived uncorroborated notions?
If you have real evidence that disproves the study, feel free to educate the rest of us, but without that your comment was neither constructive, helpful nor insightful.
Note that I am for torte reform, but it appears that in this case it is not the lawsuits that are driving up the insurance costs but rather cycles in the malpractice insurance market itself.
Now by 'American' do you include Canada? That plane was an Air Canada flying from a Canadian city (Montreal) to an other Canadian city (Edmonton) and was fueled by Canadians and only occurred because they were switching from imperial to metric. If they had kept the metric system they would not have had the incident in the first place.
I doubt that is the reason, otherwise all of those wireless modems would be illegal. More likely has to do with the TV side of the dish rather than the data side - I know DirectTV and DISH have rules that are probably related to what TV stations you see and what TV markets you are in.