In Australia here, and most of our free-to-air stations (publicly funded and commercial) have online catch-up services that let you steam episodes for a few weeks after they aired. It's a perfect solution to that sort of consumer demand.
Would be interesting to see the Pay-TV channels do the same thing.
Neither the author nor the submitter RTFA when they developed the title - it clearly states that surfaces must be conductive, which is an awfully long way from "anything". The article even mentions smart couches, but then goes on to say saying workarounds are required - non-conductive items must be coated with something conductive.
Neither the author nor the submitter RTFA when they developed the title - it clearly states that surfaces must be conductive, which is an awfully long way from "anything". The article even mentions smart couches, but then goes on to say saying workarounds are required - non-conductive items must be coated with something conductive.
Similar situation here, have been a consultant working with various systems and languages for the last 15 years. I'm also not formally trained in programming but have developed some reasonably complex apps both at work and home across a variety of languages.
Simple answer, just use C# via Visual Studio Express. The IDE did everything I ever wanted it to do, and C# is a very practical and straightforward language. If like me you just want to "get the job done", then you will also be pleased with the large number of built in classes available, plus there are are plenty of resources on the net to help out.
The good thing is it will grow with you, hacks like us can get by just fine but you can also develop complex object oriented solutions, plugins, reflection etc as you develop your skills.
The TSA sucks, but I can't say I disagree with their response in this case. The device is described as a robot-like device with exposed wires, resembling a handmade explosive device
Bullshit, the device resembled a homemade circuit. Homemade explosives have something else - you know, explosive material. Add to that, you can easily get additional confirmation by a 30 second explosive swab test.
The TSA should be trained in this and be able to tell the difference between some wires, and a bomb. Failure to do so is absurd.
But that is exaxtly what most governments are doing - creating an environment of fear by constantly reminding us of how vulnerable we are. External terrorism is less common now than it was 30 years ago, and yet we have grandmothers geting grope-frisked going through domestic airports, whole terminals evacuated when someone accidentally leaves their suitcase unattended, and pretty much every muslim on the planet put on notice.
They do this to achieve a political objective of control of the populace, and to help their buddies profit from all of the "preventative" measures.
How does that not satisfy the definition of "using terror to achieve a political objective"
He didnt get it wrong - "Electric Current" is an arbitary definition.
The fact that it does not match up with the most typical case - electrons - is only an inconvenience. There are other circumstances where the flow of charge matches the direction of electric current, such as with positive ions in an electrolyte, so either way you're going to have issues.
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It's terrible isn't it. Those nastry surgeons trying to save 3 other recipient's lives, how evil!
You do realise that regardless of the money, there are a whole bunch of people with potentially long and fruitfull lives that will benefit from the donation.
You can argue that there is financial bias, but it still does a lot of medical good.
I did exactly that for 18 months and it worked well. It took some discipline to achieve, but I felt the benefit of maintaining work/home seperation was worth it.
GPS signal are so weak they are below the noise floor. I dont know about you, but that just boggles my mind.
Even with quiet adjacent bands - within the origonal intension of the satellite spectrum allocation - the electronics engineers have a difficult job designing a circuit to process these signals. To then add nearby terrestrial interference that is thousands of times larger is just absurd, the size and expense of the filter required to handle this is impractical to build into most devices.
If you're going to be worried about noise, there are many other articles and categories higher up on the shit list. Also lols at Slashdot being educated and filtered - it hasn't been that for a while.
Whilst there may be a potential transmitter every 1.5m2, they are not all transmitting at the same time. In fact each transmitter spends a majority of it's time sleeping, with the receiver listing for a break so that it can implement collision avoidance.
You are deeply misinformed on this issue and your post is just scaremongering. The overall spectrum use is limited no matter how many people you have, and even then we're talking about an average power of 30mW on a maximum of 3 channels. No-one is getting cooked.
I dont have a Jaycar in my town and used to really miss it, but it's turned out to be far better to just buy stuff online, and you only have to be slightly organised.
Lately I get stuff from element14 (farnell), and with a $10 minimum credit card order you get free express courier shipping. The components are at my door within about 36 hours, even when it's just a few crappy components. The prices are good too - the other day I ran out of diodes and decided I should get a stack to avoid that situation again. 100 x IN4007's later my shopping basket was only $2 and I had to spend another half hour finding other fun stuff to bump up the total:)
There's still benefit in insurance even if you think you can self-manage your risk.
1) You cant actually calculate your own risk without a statistically significant number of events, and by then you are probably finished using the item. 2) Insurance is a know, regular cost and you can budget for it. 3) If you self insured and had a major accident a short way in, you may not be prepared for the lump sum costs.
Software still hasn't become formalised enough to be a real Engineering discipline, so I wouldnt get too hung up on the term. As an engineer from a different feild, it still makes me cringe when I see the range of people that will use the title.
Nevertheless, the difference between a hacker and a professional sofware "engineer" is structured, repeatable, verifiable, deterministic results.
Elected potiticians should be making decisions on the behalf of their electorate, which is made up of mostly citizens, and a few local businesses/corporations. Unfortunately, corporations have a disproportionate ability to be able to provide campaign funds versus regular citizens.
Corruption in general is making decisions for personal gain instead of the reason you were employed. When corporations provide funds to polititcians (in return for policy decisions), they can use this to run bigger/lavish campaings, hopefully pull move votes and keep themselves a cushy high paying job, meanwhile ignoring the majority of their electorate.
Also dont play down the inventive lengths that people will go to rort the system. It doesnt have to be paid into their bank acount directly for them to gain value from it.
The whole thing stinks, and it is a very blurred between "contributions" and "quid pro quo". Private contributions should be scrapped entirely to avoid the temptation.
This sounds like a solution looking for a problem.
If you have a sensor then the data is important, and not just when you are looking at it with your eyeballs. Most likely the data will be logged in a data logger, historian or LIMS database. Whether you use wired or wireless sensors, you've not just going to throw them into the feild randomly - each one will be individually configured in the database and given a meaningful name/identifier. Transmitting proximity information is thus irrelevant for data storage and analysis.
The only time I can see proximity being handy is if you were walking around, and it really just seems like an overcomplicated gimick. If you cant fit enough information on small/cheap local display, then you can wirelessly connect back to the datalogger/historian with your tablet and get a chart/trend/report of those named sensors.
The structural integrity of an integrity reduced concrete panel is still about 10 times that of a timber or brick wall.
No need to glue either: install steel anchor points, bolt it together and fill the gabs with a flexible sealant. Works a treat and is ridiculously strong.
The staff should have been checking the boxes upon return, to make sure that everything was OK. Add to that, they should have definitely been checked before outting them back on the shelves for other poeple to buy! It's either useless staff or really sloppy company policy.
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In Australia here, and most of our free-to-air stations (publicly funded and commercial) have online catch-up services that let you steam episodes for a few weeks after they aired. It's a perfect solution to that sort of consumer demand.
Would be interesting to see the Pay-TV channels do the same thing.
Neither the author nor the submitter RTFA when they developed the title - it clearly states that surfaces must be conductive, which is an awfully long way from "anything". The article even mentions smart couches, but then goes on to say saying workarounds are required - non-conductive items must be coated with something conductive.
Stupid non-tech journalists writing tech articles.
Dammit, wrong tab in my browser - I meant this: http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/10/1746224/disney-research-can-turn-nearly-any-surface-into-a-touch-screen
Neither the author nor the submitter RTFA when they developed the title - it clearly states that surfaces must be conductive, which is an awfully long way from "anything". The article even mentions smart couches, but then goes on to say saying workarounds are required - non-conductive items must be coated with something conductive.
Stupid non-tech journalists writing tech articles.
Similar situation here, have been a consultant working with various systems and languages for the last 15 years. I'm also not formally trained in programming but have developed some reasonably complex apps both at work and home across a variety of languages.
Simple answer, just use C# via Visual Studio Express. The IDE did everything I ever wanted it to do, and C# is a very practical and straightforward language. If like me you just want to "get the job done", then you will also be pleased with the large number of built in classes available, plus there are are plenty of resources on the net to help out.
The good thing is it will grow with you, hacks like us can get by just fine but you can also develop complex object oriented solutions, plugins, reflection etc as you develop your skills.
Bullshit, the device resembled a homemade circuit. Homemade explosives have something else - you know, explosive material. Add to that, you can easily get additional confirmation by a 30 second explosive swab test.
The TSA should be trained in this and be able to tell the difference between some wires, and a bomb. Failure to do so is absurd.
But that is exaxtly what most governments are doing - creating an environment of fear by constantly reminding us of how vulnerable we are. External terrorism is less common now than it was 30 years ago, and yet we have grandmothers geting grope-frisked going through domestic airports, whole terminals evacuated when someone accidentally leaves their suitcase unattended, and pretty much every muslim on the planet put on notice.
They do this to achieve a political objective of control of the populace, and to help their buddies profit from all of the "preventative" measures.
How does that not satisfy the definition of "using terror to achieve a political objective"
I use beersmith too and am very happy. Plus, it's really not expensive - if it saves me from making a mistake on a single brew it has paid for itself.
He didnt get it wrong - "Electric Current" is an arbitary definition.
The fact that it does not match up with the most typical case - electrons - is only an inconvenience. There are other circumstances where the flow of charge matches the direction of electric current, such as with positive ions in an electrolyte, so either way you're going to have issues.
It's terrible isn't it. Those nastry surgeons trying to save 3 other recipient's lives, how evil!
You do realise that regardless of the money, there are a whole bunch of people with potentially long and fruitfull lives that will benefit from the donation.
You can argue that there is financial bias, but it still does a lot of medical good.
Oh yeah. It's amasing how much stuff they find when their funding is up for review. Surely that is just a coincidence....
I did exactly that for 18 months and it worked well. It took some discipline to achieve, but I felt the benefit of maintaining work/home seperation was worth it.
Newer operators provide competition.
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GPS signal are so weak they are below the noise floor. I dont know about you, but that just boggles my mind.
Even with quiet adjacent bands - within the origonal intension of the satellite spectrum allocation - the electronics engineers have a difficult job designing a circuit to process these signals. To then add nearby terrestrial interference that is thousands of times larger is just absurd, the size and expense of the filter required to handle this is impractical to build into most devices.
If you're going to be worried about noise, there are many other articles and categories higher up on the shit list. Also lols at Slashdot being educated and filtered - it hasn't been that for a while.
I for one welcome our new R-pi overlords.
Whilst there may be a potential transmitter every 1.5m2, they are not all transmitting at the same time. In fact each transmitter spends a majority of it's time sleeping, with the receiver listing for a break so that it can implement collision avoidance.
You are deeply misinformed on this issue and your post is just scaremongering. The overall spectrum use is limited no matter how many people you have, and even then we're talking about an average power of 30mW on a maximum of 3 channels. No-one is getting cooked.
I dont have a Jaycar in my town and used to really miss it, but it's turned out to be far better to just buy stuff online, and you only have to be slightly organised.
Lately I get stuff from element14 (farnell), and with a $10 minimum credit card order you get free express courier shipping. The components are at my door within about 36 hours, even when it's just a few crappy components. The prices are good too - the other day I ran out of diodes and decided I should get a stack to avoid that situation again. 100 x IN4007's later my shopping basket was only $2 and I had to spend another half hour finding other fun stuff to bump up the total :)
There's still benefit in insurance even if you think you can self-manage your risk.
1) You cant actually calculate your own risk without a statistically significant number of events, and by then you are probably finished using the item.
2) Insurance is a know, regular cost and you can budget for it.
3) If you self insured and had a major accident a short way in, you may not be prepared for the lump sum costs.
This is about the best reponse so far.
Software still hasn't become formalised enough to be a real Engineering discipline, so I wouldnt get too hung up on the term. As an engineer from a different feild, it still makes me cringe when I see the range of people that will use the title.
Nevertheless, the difference between a hacker and a professional sofware "engineer" is structured, repeatable, verifiable, deterministic results.
Way to miss the mark.
Elected potiticians should be making decisions on the behalf of their electorate, which is made up of mostly citizens, and a few local businesses/corporations. Unfortunately, corporations have a disproportionate ability to be able to provide campaign funds versus regular citizens.
Corruption in general is making decisions for personal gain instead of the reason you were employed. When corporations provide funds to polititcians (in return for policy decisions), they can use this to run bigger/lavish campaings, hopefully pull move votes and keep themselves a cushy high paying job, meanwhile ignoring the majority of their electorate.
Also dont play down the inventive lengths that people will go to rort the system. It doesnt have to be paid into their bank acount directly for them to gain value from it.
The whole thing stinks, and it is a very blurred between "contributions" and "quid pro quo". Private contributions should be scrapped entirely to avoid the temptation.
This sounds like a solution looking for a problem.
If you have a sensor then the data is important, and not just when you are looking at it with your eyeballs. Most likely the data will be logged in a data logger, historian or LIMS database. Whether you use wired or wireless sensors, you've not just going to throw them into the feild randomly - each one will be individually configured in the database and given a meaningful name/identifier. Transmitting proximity information is thus irrelevant for data storage and analysis.
The only time I can see proximity being handy is if you were walking around, and it really just seems like an overcomplicated gimick. If you cant fit enough information on small/cheap local display, then you can wirelessly connect back to the datalogger/historian with your tablet and get a chart/trend/report of those named sensors.
The structural integrity of an integrity reduced concrete panel is still about 10 times that of a timber or brick wall.
No need to glue either: install steel anchor points, bolt it together and fill the gabs with a flexible sealant. Works a treat and is ridiculously strong.
The staff should have been checking the boxes upon return, to make sure that everything was OK. Add to that, they should have definitely been checked before outting them back on the shelves for other poeple to buy! It's either useless staff or really sloppy company policy.
PS - wood has no merits in a fire. It might not bend and twist, instead it just adds to the fuel load and collapses.