So, it precisely identifies every vehicle in it's frame of view - and just how accurate is it at actually matching speed with a vehicle?
With normal traffic radar, the only guarantee that you really have is "something was going 72 mph" - there's no guarantee that the vehicle being pointed at was doing that speed. Motorcycle enthusiasts have pointed out repeatedly that a truck four times further away from the radar gun than a motorcycle will be tracked instead of the motorcycle, as will other vehicles in different lanes, going either direction.
Unless this uses a laser or similar technology to actually track the license plate, it's just another inaccurate revenue generator./frank
When transistors were expensive, fixed-length instructions made some sense on die (although they tend to inflate system memory needs), but transistors are extraordinarily cheap today. Instruction decode is such a small part of a modern processor die, and so fast, that it makes no difference.
Sure, the world would be aesthetically more appealing if the 68000 had won the microprocessor war rather than the 8086, but the performance difference at this stage of evolution would be infinitesimal.
So how does homeopathy and manipulation of vertebral subluxation help in the alkalinization of the localized substrate around the heavy metal contaminant leading to aerobicide of the wayward tissue? And is DMSO an effective transfer agent for these processes?
Medical improvements take a long time from "discovery" to "buy it at Walgreens". The discoveries you hear about today won't translate into treatments for 10-20 years. But, progress is certainly being made (http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/survival/fiveyear/).
We love new things, and we love improvements; we abhor inefficiency and "stupid pretty things". If we wanted eye candy, we'd get a Mac. I guess I should read more about their "clear benefits", because we are obviously missing them!
Almost byte-for-byte the same thing I said when I was dragged kicking and screaming from Win2000 to WinXP and it's Fisher-Price UI design.
Living in the great state of Arizona, we've chosen to ignore the Federal Government's pronouncements on time, and their constant meddling with when time should change.
So, in the midst of the "more power is more better" era of automotive sales, your uncle-in-law invents a carburetor modification that sucks the power out of a V8 but increases the gas mileage a little bit (the '64 Oldsmobile with the 394 CID engine that I drove in high school got around 14/17, well at least when I kept my foot out of it), and you wonder why it never saw the light of day? Perhaps leaning out the mixture didn't work well when emissions controls were first coming on line.
Sorry, you'll need a better story.
Reminds me of the t-shirts my friend had made up and sold in, oh, 1983:
Nuke the gay unborn baby whales for Jesus.
Had a pretty cool graphic in the center, tool.
Still have a couple in my closet, young'un.
I upgraded my IBM T60 (1.8GHz C2D, 2GB RAM) from XP to Vista and ran it that way for a year. It was a horrible experience. Yes, it worked, but it was sluggish and seemed to take joy in making my life miserable. It felt like running NT 3.51 on the hardware of the day - yes, it worked, but you could tell it was straining hard to provide an acceptable UI.
After a year, I upgraded the same machine to Win7. Although I still prefer the simple UI of Win2000 (or the Classic mode of XP), win7 was superior to Vista in every way in day-to-day usage. The machine felt more responsive, and after six months I actually went out and bought Win7 licenses for my 3 home XP machines to upgrade them.
Vista was a train wreck. The sooner that the pieces are swept into a pile and buried, the better.
or perhaps a plugin that blocks execution of javascript by default, and only executes it on sites that the user "whitelists" or on request. We could call it "NoScript".
How much does Microsoft want to license Windows Phone OS? My understanding is...around $15.
So, $15 to license Windows Phone 7 with a bunch of software that Microsoft paid to develop and has to maintain along with patent licenses, or $15 to license Android that doesn't contain a single line of Microsoft code but needs the patent licenses? I'm sure their patents are worth something, but this seems a wee bit overpriced.
Because she was an elected public official and these are official public records?
An unwillingness to examine the job that your government is doing will be the death of us./frank
p.s. I completely agree with you if this had been a hacked personal email dump - that kind of thing is none of my business. Unless, of course, she we doing government business over her personal email, in which case I consider those to be official public records also.
1Password looks like an excellent browser-based password solution, but as a system solution, it leaves something to be desired. It doesn't appear to support a Windows Login, or non-Browser based apps (like the VPN software I'm asked to use). More comprehensive solutions are available from Digital Persona, LastPass, RoboForm, Authentec, etc.
Even more shameless plug than yours follows: Buy an HP Business class laptop with a Validity fingerprint sensor. Having participated in the development of the fingerprint sensor, the hardware and software security architectures, I can say that this type of attack simply won't keep you up at night. Choose an arbitrarily long and complex password, and let the fingerprint sensor remember it for you. Choose different long complex passwords for all your apps and websites, and let the fingerprint sensor remember it for you. A quick swipe at the login prompt, and your password is decrypted and presented as securely as it's possible to do on a PC. 5 characters, 6 characters, 9 characters? Forget it; choose 50.
Ham radio was about communicating - being able to build something that let you communicate (Talk was a much later addition) RIGHT NOW with people 20, 100, 1000, 5000 miles away. It was nearly magical.
There is no longer any magic in that - copying Morse at 20 wpm would be a curiosity to a kid along the lines of the manual spark advance lever on a Model T ford ("You had to do that?").
Doing anything with a dead technology is exactly what RS doesn't need - they've been doing that for 30 years. The only way to reinvigorate the stores at a base technology level is to figure out what it is that a 12 year old wants to do TODAY, and empower it.
I don't have an answer for that - in a world of IPhone Apps, who the hell cares about an Arduino?
My father in law, 85 years old, had open-heart surgery to correct a congenital defect that had caused him no issues up until that point. But, he had a new doctor who "found" the problem, and convinced him to get it 'fixed". Afterwards, he spent the rest of his days in a wheelchair, carrying an oxygen tank 24 hours a day, from complications of the surgery and ended up dead at 87.
I'm sure that the new doctor followed the diagnostic manual closely - heart "this", do "that" - without considering that the patient was a healthy man suffering no ill effects from the condition./frank
Why choose? How about a Chinese knockoff of a Soviet copy of an American design?
I mean, C'mon, the Chinese certainly have the engineering talent to match that of the US and Soviets in the middle of the last century, and technology that's vastly superior to last-century technology. They have 50 years of There is a world of "free trade" that means they can buy anything they can't make - even the US and Russia would be happy to supply them. (Imagine the Soviets attempting to buy oxygen turbopumps in 1959 from a US supplier). They have money coming out the wazoo. There is no doubt that they could do this.
Sometimes, though, copying someone else's work makes things cheaper, quicker, and with fewer dead astronauts.
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So, it precisely identifies every vehicle in it's frame of view - and just how accurate is it at actually matching speed with a vehicle?
With normal traffic radar, the only guarantee that you really have is "something was going 72 mph" - there's no guarantee that the vehicle being pointed at was doing that speed. Motorcycle enthusiasts have pointed out repeatedly that a truck four times further away from the radar gun than a motorcycle will be tracked instead of the motorcycle, as will other vehicles in different lanes, going either direction.
Unless this uses a laser or similar technology to actually track the license plate, it's just another inaccurate revenue generator. /frank
Why?
When transistors were expensive, fixed-length instructions made some sense on die (although they tend to inflate system memory needs), but transistors are extraordinarily cheap today. Instruction decode is such a small part of a modern processor die, and so fast, that it makes no difference.
Sure, the world would be aesthetically more appealing if the 68000 had won the microprocessor war rather than the 8086, but the performance difference at this stage of evolution would be infinitesimal.
Wow.
So how does homeopathy and manipulation of vertebral subluxation help in the alkalinization of the localized substrate around the heavy metal contaminant leading to aerobicide of the wayward tissue? And is DMSO an effective transfer agent for these processes?
Medical improvements take a long time from "discovery" to "buy it at Walgreens". The discoveries you hear about today won't translate into treatments for 10-20 years. But, progress is certainly being made (http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/survival/fiveyear/).
Common in today's cards:
http://www.electroiq.com/blogs/chipworks_real_chips_blog/2010/09.html
The concept of stacking 9 die in a micro-SD card still blows my mind...
We love new things, and we love improvements; we abhor inefficiency and "stupid pretty things". If we wanted eye candy, we'd get a Mac.
I guess I should read more about their "clear benefits", because we are obviously missing them!
Almost byte-for-byte the same thing I said when I was dragged kicking and screaming from Win2000 to WinXP and it's Fisher-Price UI design.
Now that was a well-reasoned response. Two thumbs up!
Exactly so.
Living in the great state of Arizona, we've chosen to ignore the Federal Government's pronouncements on time, and their constant meddling with when time should change.
So, in the midst of the "more power is more better" era of automotive sales, your uncle-in-law invents a carburetor modification that sucks the power out of a V8 but increases the gas mileage a little bit (the '64 Oldsmobile with the 394 CID engine that I drove in high school got around 14/17, well at least when I kept my foot out of it), and you wonder why it never saw the light of day? Perhaps leaning out the mixture didn't work well when emissions controls were first coming on line. Sorry, you'll need a better story.
After about the 500th reference to it on /.
Are they being blacklisted because their book is full of porn ads like your link?
Reminds me of the t-shirts my friend had made up and sold in, oh, 1983: Nuke the gay unborn baby whales for Jesus. Had a pretty cool graphic in the center, tool. Still have a couple in my closet, young'un.
Oh glorious, glorious slashvertisements.
I'm sorry, but you're wrong.
I upgraded my IBM T60 (1.8GHz C2D, 2GB RAM) from XP to Vista and ran it that way for a year. It was a horrible experience. Yes, it worked, but it was sluggish and seemed to take joy in making my life miserable. It felt like running NT 3.51 on the hardware of the day - yes, it worked, but you could tell it was straining hard to provide an acceptable UI.
After a year, I upgraded the same machine to Win7. Although I still prefer the simple UI of Win2000 (or the Classic mode of XP), win7 was superior to Vista in every way in day-to-day usage. The machine felt more responsive, and after six months I actually went out and bought Win7 licenses for my 3 home XP machines to upgrade them.
Vista was a train wreck. The sooner that the pieces are swept into a pile and buried, the better.
or perhaps a plugin that blocks execution of javascript by default, and only executes it on sites that the user "whitelists" or on request. We could call it "NoScript".
What an ass.
Warning: Unpleasant picture in the link.
That's what I get for browsing at 1, I guess.
How much does Microsoft want to license Windows Phone OS? My understanding is...around $15.
So, $15 to license Windows Phone 7 with a bunch of software that Microsoft paid to develop and has to maintain along with patent licenses, or $15 to license Android that doesn't contain a single line of Microsoft code but needs the patent licenses? I'm sure their patents are worth something, but this seems a wee bit overpriced.
Because she was an elected public official and these are official public records?
An unwillingness to examine the job that your government is doing will be the death of us. /frank
p.s. I completely agree with you if this had been a hacked personal email dump - that kind of thing is none of my business. Unless, of course, she we doing government business over her personal email, in which case I consider those to be official public records also.
Brute force a 128-bit equivalent random string?
Go ahead, give it a try. I'll wait.
1Password looks like an excellent browser-based password solution, but as a system solution, it leaves something to be desired. It doesn't appear to support a Windows Login, or non-Browser based apps (like the VPN software I'm asked to use). More comprehensive solutions are available from Digital Persona, LastPass, RoboForm, Authentec, etc.
Even more shameless plug than yours follows:
Buy an HP Business class laptop with a Validity fingerprint sensor. Having participated in the development of the fingerprint sensor, the hardware and software security architectures, I can say that this type of attack simply won't keep you up at night. Choose an arbitrarily long and complex password, and let the fingerprint sensor remember it for you. Choose different long complex passwords for all your apps and websites, and let the fingerprint sensor remember it for you. A quick swipe at the login prompt, and your password is decrypted and presented as securely as it's possible to do on a PC. 5 characters, 6 characters, 9 characters? Forget it; choose 50.
You had me...right up to the "ham radio gear".
It's dead Jim. Let it rest in peace.
Ham radio was about communicating - being able to build something that let you communicate (Talk was a much later addition) RIGHT NOW with people 20, 100, 1000, 5000 miles away. It was nearly magical.
There is no longer any magic in that - copying Morse at 20 wpm would be a curiosity to a kid along the lines of the manual spark advance lever on a Model T ford ("You had to do that?").
Doing anything with a dead technology is exactly what RS doesn't need - they've been doing that for 30 years. The only way to reinvigorate the stores at a base technology level is to figure out what it is that a 12 year old wants to do TODAY, and empower it.
I don't have an answer for that - in a world of IPhone Apps, who the hell cares about an Arduino?
More anecodatal evidence:
My father in law, 85 years old, had open-heart surgery to correct a congenital defect that had caused him no issues up until that point. But, he had a new doctor who "found" the problem, and convinced him to get it 'fixed". Afterwards, he spent the rest of his days in a wheelchair, carrying an oxygen tank 24 hours a day, from complications of the surgery and ended up dead at 87.
I'm sure that the new doctor followed the diagnostic manual closely - heart "this", do "that" - without considering that the patient was a healthy man suffering no ill effects from the condition. /frank
Don't have to:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/forums/forum/329220/topic/4503818
ooops.
"They have 50 years of watching and learning from aerospace efforts of other countries. "
Why choose?
How about a Chinese knockoff of a Soviet copy of an American design?
I mean, C'mon, the Chinese certainly have the engineering talent to match that of the US and Soviets in the middle of the last century, and technology that's vastly superior to last-century technology. They have 50 years of There is a world of "free trade" that means they can buy anything they can't make - even the US and Russia would be happy to supply them. (Imagine the Soviets attempting to buy oxygen turbopumps in 1959 from a US supplier). They have money coming out the wazoo. There is no doubt that they could do this.
Sometimes, though, copying someone else's work makes things cheaper, quicker, and with fewer dead astronauts.