The totally stereotypical complaint is Greenland always looks as big as all of south america, despite only being about the size of Argentina. Or in the wiki article, looks bigger than Africa but Africa has 14 times the land area.
Well, there's one potential benefit - maybe Amazon will acquire Qwikster and we can be done with the boneheads who have killed the formerly great Netflix.
Maybe not that exact deal, but I could totally see the reason to split is the intention that one side or another is about to get bought by someone who only wants half and wants a nice clean purchase of that half and/or can't afford to buy the whole enchilada. Some other CEO was just saying to the netflix CEO last month "I just wanna buy a Y company not a Y and Z company and then have to spin off Z, or Z competes with my other line of business, or I can't afford to buy a Y and Z company but I can afford a Y company."
I'd suspect odds are over 90% there will be a takeover/purchase announcement within a month or two.
staffed with doctors and nurses who didn't seem to give a shit, and were constantly asked the same questions over and over as if the staff didn't bother to even look at the papers the previous person had filled out
I had to LOL at that. The first part is because they're frazzled after being on a 36 hour working shift dealing with people taking their kids to the hospital merely because they have the sniffles. Ask a doc what "GOMER" means... get outta my ER...
The second part is if you're having trouble breathing or in pain they do that 100% intentionally and repeatedly to document your response, on the theory that if you start hallucinating or giving bonkers results, or even worse, can no longer physically respond, that would indicate blood oxygenation problems or truly intense pain. Also its SOP to talk like that to the relatives to show "they care" and also it gets any anti-social responses out of the way during a medically irrelevant and personally staffed moment rather than during a procedure or when they're freaking out alone. Its scripted by the management and legal teams based on extensive clinical research, certainly nothing personal. They ask those specific questions because obviously they already know the "correct" answers and can therefore evaluate the mental function of the patient and patient's relatives. Finally they have to do it repeatedly to make sure the patient is at least stable or preferably improving in function... if the patient and/or relatives gives worse and worse answers as time goes on, then the docs really start freaking out (although you're not suppose to be able to notice). If the patient is getting to be a bit of a smart ass about it, that is a pretty good indication the patient is feeling much better; they're actually hoping for that kind of response; if the patient has given up all hope and is ignoring them, then the nurses and docs start freaking out. It turns out that asking someone to perform is way the heck more accurate than asking someone to evaluate their own performance; I suppose that could be culturally different. My nurse niece in law had a long sorta humorous conversation about being trained to do this, and its apparently industry wide not just her, or her hospital, or her corporation, apparently the old timers who've heard it all tend to turn the practical experience section into a laugh riot.
How do you even measure that? Health care quality is already normally measured in cases per thousand people (or ten thousand, or whatever).
"Best" is pretty vague, but their life expectancy is higher than the us, child mortality is lower than the us, infant mortality is lower than practically anywhere in the world, blah blah. The US stats are generally closer to a 3rd world country than 1st world in every stat except dollars spent and executive salaries, so its no great achievement. None the less, if you have to get sick, my advice is get sick in Cuba.
What distorts numbers is Cuba's exported doctors are legendarily good. You gotta export "something" onto the world market, and Cuba is legendary for two exports, cigars and doctors. Maybe if we got rid of silicon valley and hollywood and Manhattan island, and focused all those resources on medical schools, we could massively outproduce Cuba, or maybe not, maybe its just something culturally ingrained to pump out good docs. Much like the middle east countries have a national strategy of exporting oil and terrorism, and the nordic countries try to export cellphones, Cuba has a national strategy of creating and exporting excellent doctors, and they've had considerable historical success. That in no way stops politician types around the world from latching on to tangentially related issues and claiming them as the direct cause of their great doctors, which is about as stupid as claiming owning saunas somehow magically astrological thinking style results directly in better cellphones, so therefore Apple must install saunas in their new HQ or something dumb like that.
There is absolutely no danger in using stem cell to treat a fatal disease... Patients who are close to death should be allowed to opt into almost any treatment that has a plausible chance of success (unlike therapies which are proven frauds, like homeopathy, etc.)
I mostly agree with you, but the traditional responses are:
1) "Binary thinking for the fail" Other than, say, a gunshot wound to the heart, or decapitation, very few medical conditions are 100% long term fatal. I think we can safely assume that within the next 200 years I'll be dead, therefore my your argument is morally and ethically correct for me to take any treatment I want. Logic chopper types are gonna hack your argument up like a bad gintzu knife infomercial.
2) No danger to the patient, but there is one to society. Think of combos. Most diseases get a mix of treatments, all of which contribute. So, he took stem cells, homeopathy, astrological readings, and chiropractic treatments and that cured him 100%. Ignorant fool sees that result, says, self, I have no medical insurance and can't afford stem cell treatment, but I can afford homeopathy, astrological readings, and chiropractic treatments, so that means I "must" have a 75% success rate, right? This leads to all manner of foolishness.
3) All treatments, to some extent, cause harm to the world. Burning oil, wasting money that could have gone to govt selected winners instead of the average population, etc. So you gotta balance, call it government death panels, or insurance company profit margin improvement teams or living wills or whatever. Given a treatment that would result in an extra week of life at a cost of permanent lifetime poverty for all descendants, some choose one way, some choose another. Some treatments are outright dangerous to the population as a whole, like antibiotic treatments for a virus. Pump an HIV carrier full of antibiotics, all you'll get is a source of antibiotic resistant bacteria, which is bad for everybody.
which is also painfully obvious to anyone in the field. microcontrollers have had multiple clock inputs and internal oscillator blocks with support for switching between them built in for decades. You can also switch the low speed osc off while the high speed one is running if you're obsessive.
Its also painfully obvious to the RF engineering crowd. "obviously" if you have a multiplier chain the high freq mults are going to draw more power than the low freq mults. mults are never known for efficiency so if you have a couple stages you'll find most of your power is dropped in them not the osc. Also you wanna keep the crystal running all the time so its stable, constant temp, etc. Heck keep the first mult stage or so running to keep the load on the osc stable, if you want. That way the calibration output is theoretically usable all the time, instead of being FM modulated as you turn the mults on and off.
Anyway, when you're actively TX or RX, then, and only then, power up the higher freq multipliers in the RX or TX chain (assuming you have 2 separate chains, you just got an instant 50% power savings at the cost of some complicated power wiring). If you're leaving the xtal powered up 24x7 to enhance stability, then powering down the multipliers seems terribly obvious... so that's exactly what they did in ye olden days. When I was a kid I fooled around with some even then obsolete motorola VHF TX and RX strips that had this "obvious" power saving feature.
I don't have a cite, but pick up VHF/UHF/microwave oriented ham radio manuals from about half a century ago, you'll probably be successful.
Merely terminating the last mult stage in a microprocessor clock input instead of a RF mixer is not exactly insightful or patent worthy. Its the equivalent of patenting the concept of using AA batteries in a flashlight instead of their traditional use in kids toys.
The patent is probably much more specific to get around the staggering quantity of prior art. Probably specs the exact layer 2 framing protocol complete with diagrams of the sync header and stuff.
The WNDR3700 is great if you don't mind 5GHz ranges of approximately a 10' radius of the router
Original poster was moving into an apartment... 10', properly placed of course, would cover my old bachelor pad quite well. The furthest away point, being the shower, would not have good coverage, but thats OK. Also coverage inside the coat closet by the front door would be sub optimal, again, eh...
Something I've gotten used to in home ownership, is its a heck of a lot simpler, and more reliable, to simply install multiple access points than to try and wring the last 5 feet of coverage out... I've got an AP in the lab/shop/whatever room, and an AP in the home office adjacent to the kitchen/living room, and that pretty much covers 99% of my "awake" living area.
Now, I must confess I haven't watched all the reactions of other parties, but after the election both SPD and CDU were dismissive to the point of insulting those who voted for the Pirate Party.
So, in my homeland, the Pirate Party is kind of the equivalent of Dr Ron Paul?
Hilariously, if docs and teachers were treated like "content creators" then we'd have to pay huge amounts of money to their managers in perpetuity to basically do nothing, while the docs and teachers got practically no pay after they pay their bills. Oh wait...
I am amazed that most people see no danger in turning over more and more and more and more personal information to a single, giant company. Especially one that makes all its money not on we as "customers" but from other companies. And one that doesn't even have a way to contact a human when something goes horribly wrong.
You make them sound as bad as a government, yet they are much more restrained.
What sort of trade secrets are involved in transferring currency from person A to person B?
Usually a lot of "dazzle them with BS" snake-oil crypto this is carefully designed to be completely wide open to cops and advertisers.
The only thing holding this back is the chicken and egg problem of deploying a standard that is widely adopted
Standardization probs, and that tiny little problem of a reason why. Its not the kind of thing that anyone desires. There are some wanna-be middlemen who are hoping to intermediate themselves, everyone else is like "who cares". Whats in it for me is... um... uh... nothing, and whats in it for wanna-be intermediaries is make money fast.
Interface - We use an old Dell re-purposed to drive our HDTV, but the masses will not want to use a wireless keyboard and mouse to find something to watch.
My mythtv frontends use IR keyboard/mice, because my infrared learning remote control works perfectly with them.
I standardized on mythtv before the wii was released, but I hear that relative "noobs" swear by using a wiimote with mythtv. A wiimote is just another bluetooth gadget.
The other part is that times change. If you told my semi-technophobe sister in law that most of the 1st worlds "socializing time" would be carried out by typing on a website using a smartphone that costs more per month than my electric bill, she would have considered me crazy, but here we are.
The future is already here, its just not evenly distributed.
Could a commercial include voice commands in it's audio to take over your viewing?
Presumably it will already (be attempting to) cancel out the sound it's passing on to the TV.
That's too bad... I think about 1/5 the star trek episodes revolved around "computer, activate self destruct", instant red ring of death on the xbox. I suppose all those pr0n actresses who think acting is saying "F me" over and over, would cause the xbox to change its user interface to "microsoft bob" mode or sign me up for multilevel marketing schemes or have me online internet e-vote for Obama...
Interesting considering that board members are elected BY stockholders, and are supposed to represent their interests
That's exactly why they're doofuses. There is a totally ignorant belief that most voting stock is owned by the rank and file having purchased a share a month out of their paycheck for the past 50 years, and therefore most voting shares are now owned by near retirement grayhair rank and file who will defend the value of their retirement fund by voting "correctly" (as if that class would even know what "correct" is..)
The reality is that virtually all stock is either momentarily owned by programmed day trading algorithms who don't care about the company future beyond the price at tomorrow's sale so owning the stock on the day of record is fairly irrelevant, or giant mutual funds who must always agree with the existing board's vote suggestion, or have to justify why they temporarily purchased an inferior company. The few humans who vote are usually... wait for it... the board members themselves, having voted to gift themselves lavish numbers of shares.
Check the statistics... Typical voting records look like a 3rd world "democratic" dictatorship. Invariably 99% of the votes will be for the board's suggestion, or no vote.
The stock market is a gambling system, not an investment system.
There's the problem. Admittedly $800 ipads won't fix it. Get that ratio down, scores will improve.
My sister in law was a teacher in an experimental federal program some years ago to "do whatever is necessary" to get the ratio down to 15 kids per teacher. That's only $3200 worth of ipads, not enough to hire a teacher, but Maybe a couple hours a week during reading class from a part time aide... (They're back to having 25 kids in a class now, it was unfortunately temporary, she said it was nice while it lasted)
With today's inferior culture, you need ratios that low to keep order. As a pre-emptive strike, its unnecessary to provide anecdotes about how your lilly-white both parents married and living together WASPy school 30 years ago kept order with thirty kids per teacher. That's just not how things are now.
The other question that is NEVER EVER mentioned, probably intentionally, is who pays for the itunes app store? My sis-in-law has a capital grant to place exactly six ipads in her classroom this fall, but as far as I know, no yearly itunes fund. In fact I don't think itunes has the facility for governmental purchase orders. I'm not even sure her PC is fast enough to run itunes... Maybe parents will be guilt tripped into buying itunes gift cards along with the rest of the school supplies? She knows I have an ipad, and was asking me what to do with just 6 ipads for 25 kids and no app budget, and I told her I frankly have no idea what-so-ever. The best free "kids" websites are all flash based like starfall, etc, so probably not websites. Pirated media like "educational" videos, maybe? The kids are too young to be decent pirates, so you can't rely on them. This is a good example of how "throwing money at the problem" makes the teachers less effective, because she has to burn valuable time trying to figure out how to make it look like a good investment, if she ever wants future capital investments to be approved such as paint for the walls or new books, instead of working on teaching. And the boss has to blow time and money on human monitoring or software monitoring "solutions" to make sure the kids aren't just watching miley cyrus videos using their ipads.
...as long as Intel makes all their software and inventions open source as well.
The difference is they control what their employees do, but not what the kids do. What if the kids in the lab create something "naughty" that gets them sued, if Intel has no financial benefit from what the kids could do, they have a stronger argument that they should share no financial liability with the kids.
I'm not worried about kids writing virii, that's the arena where "for-profit" anti-virus companies shine. I'm more worried about the kids creating "Napster 2012" or equivalent. Intel wants / needs no part of that, thats for sure.
Somewhat less trollish would be if the kids invented something that Intel would own that would make them vaguely in violation of some kind of anti-trust law.
In summary, no profit off the kids makes the odds of financial loss from the kids somewhat lower.
I can even propose a theoretical reason why someone would feel a Wi-Fi signal. A half wave Wi-Fi antenna is 6.25 cm, or about 2.5 inches. It is entirely possible for the brain or some other part of the body to have a roughly straight conductive region that is that long—the walls of a particularly straight blood vessel, for example, or a series of overly (even dendritically) myelinated neurons lined up perfectly in a row—in which case you'd basically have a (poor) Wi-Fi antenna in your brain, coupled directly to your nervous system.
You'd have an even bigger problem if you had any sort of metal implant that was just the right length, up to and including stupid things like the metal arm on a pair of eyeglasses, a wire on a retainer or pair of braces, etc.
Unfortunately that antenna is embedded inside a highly conductive saline dielectric, that being your body. Model it in NEC for a good laugh. Also note the "RF skin effect" is very appropriately named in this case. You'll thermally/ohmically burn your skin long before you get individual neurons excited.
Apparently something like a WiFi card can generate a strong enough signal that blows the amplifiers of the telescopes.
LOL check out the inverse square law and get back to me... If that were the case, aircraft over new york state would utterly vaporize them.
Now I have heard stories of ham radio guys with cutting edge 1296 preamps and high gain mobile antennas blowing their preamps by driving down the street next to the airport full of hundred watt peak class 1090 MHz active transponders. But that requires the antennas to be only a few feet apart, high gain antenna pointed at each other, and a factor of a thousand higher power.
... NASA is... offering processed space shuttle tiles... to eligible schools
Is this a dupe from 1983? If I recall from decades ago, according to the asset tag at my middle school, that's when we got our shuttle tile. 83-something. Back then they did not have bar code or RFID tags, at least where I was.
Now the actual story might be that instead of fishing them out of the scrap and bump -n- dent barrel and giving them to schools, they're dumping out the surplus brand new theoretically usable spare parts instead.
Are there any schools without tiles? I think every school in our district had at least one shuttle tile since the 80s. You can do some pretty cool demos of insulation, picking them up by the corners while red hot, etc. Aerogels work even better but they're much more fragile.
Why not have the astronauts consume gels similar to what athletes use?
Complete lack of fiber intake causes various large intestinal issues after awhile. Also those gels are basically flavored HFCS, aren't they? Eating that much, they'd probably be dead from early onset diabetes before they land. Those gels are not very different from soda concentrate syrup, roughly equally healthy, and no one would eat them without massive ad budgets and sponsorship deals.
tell him the paint is wet and he'll touch it to find out....
He should believe you on faith alone?
According to many people, yes.
Some religious nut types have correctly identified that at least some fraction (maybe a large one) of people who "believe in evolution" are merely faithful believers in whatever someone in a position of authority says. If that position of authority has a dude who was good at calculus in it, but failed philosophy and history, maybe that blind faith is misguided, and a guy with admittedly peculiar beliefs about a white old man in the sky who also got an A+ in philosophy and history would, in a blind faith environment, be a better recipient of blind faith on average. If you're talking solely about sheep, the religious nuts ARE correct, the "history nerd" probably would, on average, be a better hero worshiped leader of men, most of the time in most situations, than the "math nerd".
They categorically deny that someone can think and rationally decide, that anything other than blindly faithful sheep can exist, and that drives atheists / scientists types absolutely bonkers if they happen to be part of the small subset of thinkers who agree with the conclusions, not simply hero worshipping their professors and going with the herd.
So what you're saying is, because the truth is inconvenient, it has to be denied?
The truth is irrelevant, not inconvenient.
The ground I'm sitting on has been at the bottom of a tropical sea and has been underneath mile tall glaciers. Hearing a fanatic explain that we must model our nation to a cross between somalia in the 00s and cambodia in the 70s to prevent a couple degree temperature change is simply not very relevant to me. If you must destroy the economy, annihilate culture and lifestyle, eliminate the children (literally), and remove yourself from the gene pool, then I'm sad you're mentally ill, none the less, please, go right ahead, but do it to your countries economy (not mine), your culture and lifestyle (not mine), your children (not mine) and make sure to schedule removing yourself before trying to take me out.
Its literally a paleo-conservative viewpoint that how the earth is now, happens to be how it always has been, and is the best it could ever be, and any change from our current god-like perfection is, in itself, inherently evil (My view is far more liberal that this) The paleoconservative view is right up there with geocentricism in terms of scientific rationality and self-centeredness. It is, quite literally, suicidal, and I am too libertarian to demand they be sent to mental health facilities even if they do belong there, but I can certainly diametrically oppose absolutely everything they stand for.
clearly the author is bitter about how the public has scrutinized climate science
Clearly the author is bitter because he selected a field that no one really cares about. Its cool work, but right or wrong it'll have no substantial effect on my life.
Simple factual observations about climate are fine, until they're used to unemploy and starve my children, usually in favor of their own favored group of course, which seems to be the end goal. In defense of my own life and my childrens life, they must be faught at all costs at all times.
For a good time look at how scientists who study the relative IQ levels of nations / cultures / races are treated. Strictly numerical analysis is OK, and its all cool, until they start burning crosses and firing up the ovens, then all of a sudden its not so cool.
Ditto the economists. Draw funny graphs all you want, its real cool, at least until millions get killed in purges and gulags.
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May be its all a mercator projection distortion?
The totally stereotypical complaint is Greenland always looks as big as all of south america, despite only being about the size of Argentina. Or in the wiki article, looks bigger than Africa but Africa has 14 times the land area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection
Well, there's one potential benefit - maybe Amazon will acquire Qwikster and we can be done with the boneheads who have killed the formerly great Netflix.
Maybe not that exact deal, but I could totally see the reason to split is the intention that one side or another is about to get bought by someone who only wants half and wants a nice clean purchase of that half and/or can't afford to buy the whole enchilada. Some other CEO was just saying to the netflix CEO last month "I just wanna buy a Y company not a Y and Z company and then have to spin off Z, or Z competes with my other line of business, or I can't afford to buy a Y and Z company but I can afford a Y company."
I'd suspect odds are over 90% there will be a takeover/purchase announcement within a month or two.
staffed with doctors and nurses who didn't seem to give a shit, and were constantly asked the same questions over and over as if the staff didn't bother to even look at the papers the previous person had filled out
I had to LOL at that. The first part is because they're frazzled after being on a 36 hour working shift dealing with people taking their kids to the hospital merely because they have the sniffles. Ask a doc what "GOMER" means... get outta my ER...
The second part is if you're having trouble breathing or in pain they do that 100% intentionally and repeatedly to document your response, on the theory that if you start hallucinating or giving bonkers results, or even worse, can no longer physically respond, that would indicate blood oxygenation problems or truly intense pain. Also its SOP to talk like that to the relatives to show "they care" and also it gets any anti-social responses out of the way during a medically irrelevant and personally staffed moment rather than during a procedure or when they're freaking out alone. Its scripted by the management and legal teams based on extensive clinical research, certainly nothing personal. They ask those specific questions because obviously they already know the "correct" answers and can therefore evaluate the mental function of the patient and patient's relatives. Finally they have to do it repeatedly to make sure the patient is at least stable or preferably improving in function... if the patient and/or relatives gives worse and worse answers as time goes on, then the docs really start freaking out (although you're not suppose to be able to notice). If the patient is getting to be a bit of a smart ass about it, that is a pretty good indication the patient is feeling much better; they're actually hoping for that kind of response; if the patient has given up all hope and is ignoring them, then the nurses and docs start freaking out. It turns out that asking someone to perform is way the heck more accurate than asking someone to evaluate their own performance; I suppose that could be culturally different. My nurse niece in law had a long sorta humorous conversation about being trained to do this, and its apparently industry wide not just her, or her hospital, or her corporation, apparently the old timers who've heard it all tend to turn the practical experience section into a laugh riot.
How do you even measure that? Health care quality is already normally measured in cases per thousand people (or ten thousand, or whatever).
"Best" is pretty vague, but their life expectancy is higher than the us, child mortality is lower than the us, infant mortality is lower than practically anywhere in the world, blah blah. The US stats are generally closer to a 3rd world country than 1st world in every stat except dollars spent and executive salaries, so its no great achievement. None the less, if you have to get sick, my advice is get sick in Cuba.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba
What distorts numbers is Cuba's exported doctors are legendarily good. You gotta export "something" onto the world market, and Cuba is legendary for two exports, cigars and doctors. Maybe if we got rid of silicon valley and hollywood and Manhattan island, and focused all those resources on medical schools, we could massively outproduce Cuba, or maybe not, maybe its just something culturally ingrained to pump out good docs. Much like the middle east countries have a national strategy of exporting oil and terrorism, and the nordic countries try to export cellphones, Cuba has a national strategy of creating and exporting excellent doctors, and they've had considerable historical success. That in no way stops politician types around the world from latching on to tangentially related issues and claiming them as the direct cause of their great doctors, which is about as stupid as claiming owning saunas somehow magically astrological thinking style results directly in better cellphones, so therefore Apple must install saunas in their new HQ or something dumb like that.
There is absolutely no danger in using stem cell to treat a fatal disease ... Patients who are close to death should be allowed to opt into almost any treatment that has a plausible chance of success (unlike therapies which are proven frauds, like homeopathy, etc.)
I mostly agree with you, but the traditional responses are:
1) "Binary thinking for the fail" Other than, say, a gunshot wound to the heart, or decapitation, very few medical conditions are 100% long term fatal. I think we can safely assume that within the next 200 years I'll be dead, therefore my your argument is morally and ethically correct for me to take any treatment I want. Logic chopper types are gonna hack your argument up like a bad gintzu knife infomercial.
2) No danger to the patient, but there is one to society. Think of combos. Most diseases get a mix of treatments, all of which contribute. So, he took stem cells, homeopathy, astrological readings, and chiropractic treatments and that cured him 100%. Ignorant fool sees that result, says, self, I have no medical insurance and can't afford stem cell treatment, but I can afford homeopathy, astrological readings, and chiropractic treatments, so that means I "must" have a 75% success rate, right? This leads to all manner of foolishness.
3) All treatments, to some extent, cause harm to the world. Burning oil, wasting money that could have gone to govt selected winners instead of the average population, etc. So you gotta balance, call it government death panels, or insurance company profit margin improvement teams or living wills or whatever. Given a treatment that would result in an extra week of life at a cost of permanent lifetime poverty for all descendants, some choose one way, some choose another. Some treatments are outright dangerous to the population as a whole, like antibiotic treatments for a virus. Pump an HIV carrier full of antibiotics, all you'll get is a source of antibiotic resistant bacteria, which is bad for everybody.
which is also painfully obvious to anyone in the field. microcontrollers have had multiple clock inputs and internal oscillator blocks with support for switching between them built in for decades. You can also switch the low speed osc off while the high speed one is running if you're obsessive.
Its also painfully obvious to the RF engineering crowd. "obviously" if you have a multiplier chain the high freq mults are going to draw more power than the low freq mults. mults are never known for efficiency so if you have a couple stages you'll find most of your power is dropped in them not the osc. Also you wanna keep the crystal running all the time so its stable, constant temp, etc. Heck keep the first mult stage or so running to keep the load on the osc stable, if you want. That way the calibration output is theoretically usable all the time, instead of being FM modulated as you turn the mults on and off.
Anyway, when you're actively TX or RX, then, and only then, power up the higher freq multipliers in the RX or TX chain (assuming you have 2 separate chains, you just got an instant 50% power savings at the cost of some complicated power wiring). If you're leaving the xtal powered up 24x7 to enhance stability, then powering down the multipliers seems terribly obvious... so that's exactly what they did in ye olden days. When I was a kid I fooled around with some even then obsolete motorola VHF TX and RX strips that had this "obvious" power saving feature.
I don't have a cite, but pick up VHF/UHF/microwave oriented ham radio manuals from about half a century ago, you'll probably be successful.
Merely terminating the last mult stage in a microprocessor clock input instead of a RF mixer is not exactly insightful or patent worthy. Its the equivalent of patenting the concept of using AA batteries in a flashlight instead of their traditional use in kids toys.
The patent is probably much more specific to get around the staggering quantity of prior art. Probably specs the exact layer 2 framing protocol complete with diagrams of the sync header and stuff.
The WNDR3700 is great if you don't mind 5GHz ranges of approximately a 10' radius of the router
Original poster was moving into an apartment... 10', properly placed of course, would cover my old bachelor pad quite well. The furthest away point, being the shower, would not have good coverage, but thats OK. Also coverage inside the coat closet by the front door would be sub optimal, again, eh...
Something I've gotten used to in home ownership, is its a heck of a lot simpler, and more reliable, to simply install multiple access points than to try and wring the last 5 feet of coverage out... I've got an AP in the lab/shop/whatever room, and an AP in the home office adjacent to the kitchen/living room, and that pretty much covers 99% of my "awake" living area.
Now, I must confess I haven't watched all the reactions of other parties, but after the election both SPD and CDU were dismissive to the point of insulting those who voted for the Pirate Party.
So, in my homeland, the Pirate Party is kind of the equivalent of Dr Ron Paul?
forcing doctors and teachers to work for no pay
Hilariously, if docs and teachers were treated like "content creators" then we'd have to pay huge amounts of money to their managers in perpetuity to basically do nothing, while the docs and teachers got practically no pay after they pay their bills. Oh wait...
I am amazed that most people see no danger in turning over more and more and more and more personal information to a single, giant company. Especially one that makes all its money not on we as "customers" but from other companies. And one that doesn't even have a way to contact a human when something goes horribly wrong.
You make them sound as bad as a government, yet they are much more restrained.
What sort of trade secrets are involved in transferring currency from person A to person B?
Usually a lot of "dazzle them with BS" snake-oil crypto this is carefully designed to be completely wide open to cops and advertisers.
The only thing holding this back is the chicken and egg problem of deploying a standard that is widely adopted
Standardization probs, and that tiny little problem of a reason why. Its not the kind of thing that anyone desires. There are some wanna-be middlemen who are hoping to intermediate themselves, everyone else is like "who cares". Whats in it for me is ... um... uh... nothing, and whats in it for wanna-be intermediaries is make money fast.
Interface - We use an old Dell re-purposed to drive our HDTV, but the masses will not want to use a wireless keyboard and mouse to find something to watch.
My mythtv frontends use IR keyboard/mice, because my infrared learning remote control works perfectly with them.
I standardized on mythtv before the wii was released, but I hear that relative "noobs" swear by using a wiimote with mythtv. A wiimote is just another bluetooth gadget.
The other part is that times change. If you told my semi-technophobe sister in law that most of the 1st worlds "socializing time" would be carried out by typing on a website using a smartphone that costs more per month than my electric bill, she would have considered me crazy, but here we are.
The future is already here, its just not evenly distributed.
Presumably it will already (be attempting to) cancel out the sound it's passing on to the TV.
That's too bad... I think about 1/5 the star trek episodes revolved around "computer, activate self destruct", instant red ring of death on the xbox. I suppose all those pr0n actresses who think acting is saying "F me" over and over, would cause the xbox to change its user interface to "microsoft bob" mode or sign me up for multilevel marketing schemes or have me online internet e-vote for Obama...
How do you deal with the sharp edges on the cut? Categorically snip everything if you're gonna touch it in any fashion?
Just stop being afraid of cutting them open when you need to!
Oh there's plenty of cutting open involved, mostly of your hands...
A tool that burned the end off would probably be safer, other than the plastic fumes.
Interesting considering that board members are elected BY stockholders, and are supposed to represent their interests
That's exactly why they're doofuses. There is a totally ignorant belief that most voting stock is owned by the rank and file having purchased a share a month out of their paycheck for the past 50 years, and therefore most voting shares are now owned by near retirement grayhair rank and file who will defend the value of their retirement fund by voting "correctly" (as if that class would even know what "correct" is..)
The reality is that virtually all stock is either momentarily owned by programmed day trading algorithms who don't care about the company future beyond the price at tomorrow's sale so owning the stock on the day of record is fairly irrelevant, or giant mutual funds who must always agree with the existing board's vote suggestion, or have to justify why they temporarily purchased an inferior company. The few humans who vote are usually ... wait for it ... the board members themselves, having voted to gift themselves lavish numbers of shares.
Check the statistics... Typical voting records look like a 3rd world "democratic" dictatorship. Invariably 99% of the votes will be for the board's suggestion, or no vote.
The stock market is a gambling system, not an investment system.
Mrs. McCarthy says the tools give her 19 students
There's the problem. Admittedly $800 ipads won't fix it. Get that ratio down, scores will improve.
My sister in law was a teacher in an experimental federal program some years ago to "do whatever is necessary" to get the ratio down to 15 kids per teacher. That's only $3200 worth of ipads, not enough to hire a teacher, but Maybe a couple hours a week during reading class from a part time aide... (They're back to having 25 kids in a class now, it was unfortunately temporary, she said it was nice while it lasted)
With today's inferior culture, you need ratios that low to keep order. As a pre-emptive strike, its unnecessary to provide anecdotes about how your lilly-white both parents married and living together WASPy school 30 years ago kept order with thirty kids per teacher. That's just not how things are now.
The other question that is NEVER EVER mentioned, probably intentionally, is who pays for the itunes app store? My sis-in-law has a capital grant to place exactly six ipads in her classroom this fall, but as far as I know, no yearly itunes fund. In fact I don't think itunes has the facility for governmental purchase orders. I'm not even sure her PC is fast enough to run itunes... Maybe parents will be guilt tripped into buying itunes gift cards along with the rest of the school supplies? She knows I have an ipad, and was asking me what to do with just 6 ipads for 25 kids and no app budget, and I told her I frankly have no idea what-so-ever. The best free "kids" websites are all flash based like starfall, etc, so probably not websites. Pirated media like "educational" videos, maybe? The kids are too young to be decent pirates, so you can't rely on them. This is a good example of how "throwing money at the problem" makes the teachers less effective, because she has to burn valuable time trying to figure out how to make it look like a good investment, if she ever wants future capital investments to be approved such as paint for the walls or new books, instead of working on teaching. And the boss has to blow time and money on human monitoring or software monitoring "solutions" to make sure the kids aren't just watching miley cyrus videos using their ipads.
...as long as Intel makes all their software and inventions open source as well.
The difference is they control what their employees do, but not what the kids do. What if the kids in the lab create something "naughty" that gets them sued, if Intel has no financial benefit from what the kids could do, they have a stronger argument that they should share no financial liability with the kids.
I'm not worried about kids writing virii, that's the arena where "for-profit" anti-virus companies shine. I'm more worried about the kids creating "Napster 2012" or equivalent. Intel wants / needs no part of that, thats for sure.
Somewhat less trollish would be if the kids invented something that Intel would own that would make them vaguely in violation of some kind of anti-trust law.
In summary, no profit off the kids makes the odds of financial loss from the kids somewhat lower.
Come back with the intercal implementation.
I can even propose a theoretical reason why someone would feel a Wi-Fi signal. A half wave Wi-Fi antenna is 6.25 cm, or about 2.5 inches. It is entirely possible for the brain or some other part of the body to have a roughly straight conductive region that is that long—the walls of a particularly straight blood vessel, for example, or a series of overly (even dendritically) myelinated neurons lined up perfectly in a row—in which case you'd basically have a (poor) Wi-Fi antenna in your brain, coupled directly to your nervous system.
You'd have an even bigger problem if you had any sort of metal implant that was just the right length, up to and including stupid things like the metal arm on a pair of eyeglasses, a wire on a retainer or pair of braces, etc.
Unfortunately that antenna is embedded inside a highly conductive saline dielectric, that being your body. Model it in NEC for a good laugh. Also note the "RF skin effect" is very appropriately named in this case. You'll thermally/ohmically burn your skin long before you get individual neurons excited.
Apparently something like a WiFi card can generate a strong enough signal that blows the amplifiers of the telescopes.
LOL check out the inverse square law and get back to me... If that were the case, aircraft over new york state would utterly vaporize them.
Now I have heard stories of ham radio guys with cutting edge 1296 preamps and high gain mobile antennas blowing their preamps by driving down the street next to the airport full of hundred watt peak class 1090 MHz active transponders. But that requires the antennas to be only a few feet apart, high gain antenna pointed at each other, and a factor of a thousand higher power.
... NASA is ... offering processed space shuttle tiles ... to eligible schools
Is this a dupe from 1983? If I recall from decades ago, according to the asset tag at my middle school, that's when we got our shuttle tile. 83-something. Back then they did not have bar code or RFID tags, at least where I was.
Now the actual story might be that instead of fishing them out of the scrap and bump -n- dent barrel and giving them to schools, they're dumping out the surplus brand new theoretically usable spare parts instead.
Are there any schools without tiles? I think every school in our district had at least one shuttle tile since the 80s. You can do some pretty cool demos of insulation, picking them up by the corners while red hot, etc. Aerogels work even better but they're much more fragile.
Why not have the astronauts consume gels similar to what athletes use?
Complete lack of fiber intake causes various large intestinal issues after awhile. Also those gels are basically flavored HFCS, aren't they? Eating that much, they'd probably be dead from early onset diabetes before they land. Those gels are not very different from soda concentrate syrup, roughly equally healthy, and no one would eat them without massive ad budgets and sponsorship deals.
tell him the paint is wet and he'll touch it to find out....
He should believe you on faith alone?
According to many people, yes.
Some religious nut types have correctly identified that at least some fraction (maybe a large one) of people who "believe in evolution" are merely faithful believers in whatever someone in a position of authority says. If that position of authority has a dude who was good at calculus in it, but failed philosophy and history, maybe that blind faith is misguided, and a guy with admittedly peculiar beliefs about a white old man in the sky who also got an A+ in philosophy and history would, in a blind faith environment, be a better recipient of blind faith on average. If you're talking solely about sheep, the religious nuts ARE correct, the "history nerd" probably would, on average, be a better hero worshiped leader of men, most of the time in most situations, than the "math nerd".
They categorically deny that someone can think and rationally decide, that anything other than blindly faithful sheep can exist, and that drives atheists / scientists types absolutely bonkers if they happen to be part of the small subset of thinkers who agree with the conclusions, not simply hero worshipping their professors and going with the herd.
So what you're saying is, because the truth is inconvenient, it has to be denied?
The truth is irrelevant, not inconvenient.
The ground I'm sitting on has been at the bottom of a tropical sea and has been underneath mile tall glaciers. Hearing a fanatic explain that we must model our nation to a cross between somalia in the 00s and cambodia in the 70s to prevent a couple degree temperature change is simply not very relevant to me. If you must destroy the economy, annihilate culture and lifestyle, eliminate the children (literally), and remove yourself from the gene pool, then I'm sad you're mentally ill, none the less, please, go right ahead, but do it to your countries economy (not mine), your culture and lifestyle (not mine), your children (not mine) and make sure to schedule removing yourself before trying to take me out.
Its literally a paleo-conservative viewpoint that how the earth is now, happens to be how it always has been, and is the best it could ever be, and any change from our current god-like perfection is, in itself, inherently evil (My view is far more liberal that this) The paleoconservative view is right up there with geocentricism in terms of scientific rationality and self-centeredness. It is, quite literally, suicidal, and I am too libertarian to demand they be sent to mental health facilities even if they do belong there, but I can certainly diametrically oppose absolutely everything they stand for.
clearly the author is bitter about how the public has scrutinized climate science
Clearly the author is bitter because he selected a field that no one really cares about. Its cool work, but right or wrong it'll have no substantial effect on my life.
Simple factual observations about climate are fine, until they're used to unemploy and starve my children, usually in favor of their own favored group of course, which seems to be the end goal. In defense of my own life and my childrens life, they must be faught at all costs at all times.
For a good time look at how scientists who study the relative IQ levels of nations / cultures / races are treated. Strictly numerical analysis is OK, and its all cool, until they start burning crosses and firing up the ovens, then all of a sudden its not so cool.
Ditto the economists. Draw funny graphs all you want, its real cool, at least until millions get killed in purges and gulags.