You'd have the same problem with nearly any new PC. PS/2 connectors have been on their way out for a long time.
I haven't used a PS/2 mouse in over six years. Keyboard - maybe only four. This wasn't driven by Apple at all, since I don't own any of their hardware (except for a 4th or 5th gen 60GB iPod).
These sound good to me, as long as 3) is extended to pending foreign incident investigations. (An improper Halliburton cementing job is suspected to be a contributor to the East Timor Sea incident not too long ago.)
i.e. if you're implicated in an investigation into a foreign spill incident, you don't get to drill domestically until the investigation is complete.
Not exactly. The Russians didn't exactly omit them because of greed, at a high level they did because they didn't think. At a low level they had plans A through ??? and completely ignored them because of high level pressure to "get the test done OR ELSE!".
(Background: When Chernobyl blew up, they were running a risky experiment on the reactor. Their first attempt didn't go so well, so they attempted to restart the reactor to rerun it, shutting down 3-4 safety systems in the process!)
I guess you could consider a desire to produce weapons grade plutonium "greed" - the RBMK series reactors had specific design choices made that traded ability to produce weapons materials for safety. (US LWRs don't have flammable moderators inside the reactor, don't have positive void coefficients.) Even if a TMI-design reactor had a steam explosion like Chernobyl and lacked containment like Chernobyl, it wouldn't have had a superheated flammable substance (graphite) to immediately start burning on contact with air like Chernobyl did.
Now with the oil industry, we know that there have been environmental compromises due to greed. One of the companies potentially involved in this incident (Halliburton) has definitive Cheney connections, another (Cameron) has implied Cheney connections I haven't been able to verify, and Cheney has a long track record of pushing for environmental deregulation that benefits his buddies financially. (As much as I disliked Christie Whitman, I feel sorry for her political career being effectively ended because she refused to be Cheney's EPA puppet, and gained a LOT of respect for her because of that.)
It's interesting, the article retorts to one of Steve's points with:
"You've got us there, Steve, but surely your magical A4 chip could solve all this?"
Flash has a long history of having MASSIVE amounts of hardware thrown at it with very little results...
If it can't perform well on a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Quad + Nvidia 8800GT, it ain't going to perform well on the "magical" A4. The A4 is probably a great leap forward as far as mobile CPUs, but still nothing compared to the desktop hardware Flash can't run smoothly on.
"And NPR told me the other day the US Navy is lugging some Somali pirates back to the US for trial after the pirates attempted to board and loot not one, but two, US destroyers. These may not be the smartest pirates in the Red Sea. But they did apparently manage to get into close proximity to the ships." You assume that they weren't intentionally allowed to get close. It could have been a trap set for them.
Another option is to get a cheaper "dualband" unit and set it up as an AP serving ONLY 5 GHz clients, while your existing router handles 2.4 GHz clients as a G router.
There's basically no point in N in the 2.4 GHz band - N devices fall back into compatibility mode or degrade significantly in performance if there are any legacy devices present.
As far as AP-only solutions - there may be some proprietary components to AirOS, but Ubiqiti's Rocket series of 802.11n hardware is quite good.
Part of this is the fact that even "high definition" movies have a resolution of only 1920x1080.
As a result of this, it becomes easier to develop lenses for movie cameras - distortions and aberrations that would kill image quality in a 10-14 megapixel camera aren't seen by a 2 megapixel widescreen movie camera sensor.
Also, given equivalent sensor area, a sensor with only 2 megapixels has MUCH higher photo sites, so you can crank up the sensitivity w/o adding too much noise.
Also, as you pointed out, shutter speeds in movie cameras are relatively long to *intentionally* achieve blur - for moving pictures, blur can actually be beneficial. For stills, it usually is the exact opposite unless you're going for certain visual effects.
Nope, the aperture determines the *intensity* of the light falling on the sensor, not the *total* light.
Thus larger sensor -> more total light at the same aperture. If two sensors have identical pixel numbers and sensitivity settings, the physically larger one will have less noise. This is because less amplification is needed to achieve the same sensitivity.
Actually, Mr 'Evangelist" Brown should realize that this isn't HDTV's fault, it's his company's fault.
Microsoft Windows has had a very long track record of not playing well with high-DPI displays. The font management system just plain breaks at anything higher than 96 DPI or so, even if you tell Windows you're running a higher DPI. (For example, apps where text goes over the edge of a button, or off the edge of a window, or where dialog boxes wind up with unpushable buttons because the buttons were made larger but the dialog box wasn't.)
Vista/Win7 may be better, but the damage was done with Win2k and XP and all of the people that would scream and complain to their PC manufacturers that everything looked wrong on their new high-DPI displays.
If the problem were HDTV's fault, you would see 1080p laptop displays MUCH more prevalent than they are today. If anything, since the advent of HDTV, it has gotten HARDER to find 1080p displays as PC manufacturers dropped nearly all of them down to 768p because of the font problems.
If you have a problem with something like this, disable SSID broadcast.
If your AP is running wide open, well, why the $#*@)@#$ are you doing that? If it's not wide open, why do you care that someone knows there is an AP within range of a certain point on the Earth's surface?
I wonder if these people realize that without this info, location-based services (which half the complainers are probably using) wouldn't work.
If a game sells $300M of units but cost $301M - it lost money.
If a game sells $4M of units but cost $100k - it made lots of money.
(However, in terms of "jobs" and "paid developers" - the big game is better because most of that cost is developer salaries.)
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Slight distinction here:
The OMAP core is ARM-based and licensed from ARM, but the chip itself is designed by TI (and I think manufactured by them too) The A4 core is ARM-based and licensed from ARM, designed by Apple (one of the ex-PASemi teams), and manufactured by Samsung
Um, Google didn't design that. HTC did. It's not very different at all from HTC's Windows Mobile products.
Even the Nexus One isn't a Google design - it's an HTC phone carrying Google branding. (Which is very common, HTC has ALWAYS been very rebranding-friendly, it is only very recently that you started seeing the HTC brand in the United States even though HTC phones have been in the USA for quite a while.)
2/4/5 are basically all I do on my Windows machines. Admittely, I rarely use Windows for anything other than games.
1/3 have often caused more problems than they solve for me once 2/4/5 are in place.
6 is of course the good "oh shit" solution, although in my case I go beyond that and run ClamAV from a Linux partition.
However, Clam frequently doesn't find stuff MBAM finds, and vice versa. Well, I can't really say for sure, I think I've had a grand total of two infections in 6+ years.
When you're behind the wheel, there are only two things you should be paying attention to: The road and whatever may be present on that road outside of your vehicle.
Kids who are not entertained get noisy. Noisy kids distract you from the road. Distraction from the road can get you and your child killed.
Hmm... Then why are companies like Iron Mountain building out LARGE datacenters in caves?
(In most cases, former mines/quarries.)
1) Not caves large enough to drive vehicles in - many mines meet this criteria 2) Same answer as 1 for supplies, for 2 - in many cases they were already "built" for previous purposes (usually, getting valuable materials out of the ground) 3) Not if they're above the water table - many are. Iron Mountain's is, and apparently they're planning on using a nearby underground lake for cooling soon. 4) Not if built/designed correctly. 5) Iron Mountain and the like would prefer to disagree with you on that.
Did these laptops have rules stating that they were never permitted to leave the school grounds?
If so, this may improve the school district's legal standing somewhat, since the students were not supposed to have the laptops in that situation.
If the students WERE permitted to take the laptops home (other articles I have read implied they were), then under what criteria were these laptops suspected stolen? Unless a student reported a laptop as lost or stolen, or a student missed some sort of required inventory check, the administrators have no legitimate reason to suspect the laptop was stolen.
What's especially interesting is that there are medical studies showing that high intensity red light can actually have beneficial effects on the skin:
The eyes need to be protected from extended exposures like this, but brief exposure to a barcode scanner is not going to damage the eyes. As others have pointed out, these are designed to be "eye safe".
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You'd have the same problem with nearly any new PC. PS/2 connectors have been on their way out for a long time.
I haven't used a PS/2 mouse in over six years. Keyboard - maybe only four. This wasn't driven by Apple at all, since I don't own any of their hardware (except for a 4th or 5th gen 60GB iPod).
These sound good to me, as long as 3) is extended to pending foreign incident investigations. (An improper Halliburton cementing job is suspected to be a contributor to the East Timor Sea incident not too long ago.)
i.e. if you're implicated in an investigation into a foreign spill incident, you don't get to drill domestically until the investigation is complete.
Not exactly. The Russians didn't exactly omit them because of greed, at a high level they did because they didn't think. At a low level they had plans A through ??? and completely ignored them because of high level pressure to "get the test done OR ELSE!".
(Background: When Chernobyl blew up, they were running a risky experiment on the reactor. Their first attempt didn't go so well, so they attempted to restart the reactor to rerun it, shutting down 3-4 safety systems in the process!)
I guess you could consider a desire to produce weapons grade plutonium "greed" - the RBMK series reactors had specific design choices made that traded ability to produce weapons materials for safety. (US LWRs don't have flammable moderators inside the reactor, don't have positive void coefficients.) Even if a TMI-design reactor had a steam explosion like Chernobyl and lacked containment like Chernobyl, it wouldn't have had a superheated flammable substance (graphite) to immediately start burning on contact with air like Chernobyl did.
Now with the oil industry, we know that there have been environmental compromises due to greed. One of the companies potentially involved in this incident (Halliburton) has definitive Cheney connections, another (Cameron) has implied Cheney connections I haven't been able to verify, and Cheney has a long track record of pushing for environmental deregulation that benefits his buddies financially. (As much as I disliked Christie Whitman, I feel sorry for her political career being effectively ended because she refused to be Cheney's EPA puppet, and gained a LOT of respect for her because of that.)
It's interesting, the article retorts to one of Steve's points with:
"You've got us there, Steve, but surely your magical A4 chip could solve all this?"
Flash has a long history of having MASSIVE amounts of hardware thrown at it with very little results...
If it can't perform well on a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Quad + Nvidia 8800GT, it ain't going to perform well on the "magical" A4. The A4 is probably a great leap forward as far as mobile CPUs, but still nothing compared to the desktop hardware Flash can't run smoothly on.
ionice() your Firefox process then...
Interesting that what you do is the opposite of what quite a few others do (add an extra layer of cache with Squid...)
"And NPR told me the other day the US Navy is lugging some Somali pirates back to the US for trial after the pirates attempted to board and loot not one, but two, US destroyers. These may not be the smartest pirates in the Red Sea. But they did apparently manage to get into close proximity to the ships."
You assume that they weren't intentionally allowed to get close. It could have been a trap set for them.
My thought in response to this new information - "Only 43 times?"
Another option is to get a cheaper "dualband" unit and set it up as an AP serving ONLY 5 GHz clients, while your existing router handles 2.4 GHz clients as a G router.
There's basically no point in N in the 2.4 GHz band - N devices fall back into compatibility mode or degrade significantly in performance if there are any legacy devices present.
As far as AP-only solutions - there may be some proprietary components to AirOS, but Ubiqiti's Rocket series of 802.11n hardware is quite good.
Part of this is the fact that even "high definition" movies have a resolution of only 1920x1080.
As a result of this, it becomes easier to develop lenses for movie cameras - distortions and aberrations that would kill image quality in a 10-14 megapixel camera aren't seen by a 2 megapixel widescreen movie camera sensor.
Also, given equivalent sensor area, a sensor with only 2 megapixels has MUCH higher photo sites, so you can crank up the sensitivity w/o adding too much noise.
Also, as you pointed out, shutter speeds in movie cameras are relatively long to *intentionally* achieve blur - for moving pictures, blur can actually be beneficial. For stills, it usually is the exact opposite unless you're going for certain visual effects.
Nope, the aperture determines the *intensity* of the light falling on the sensor, not the *total* light.
Thus larger sensor -> more total light at the same aperture. If two sensors have identical pixel numbers and sensitivity settings, the physically larger one will have less noise. This is because less amplification is needed to achieve the same sensitivity.
Actually, Mr 'Evangelist" Brown should realize that this isn't HDTV's fault, it's his company's fault.
Microsoft Windows has had a very long track record of not playing well with high-DPI displays. The font management system just plain breaks at anything higher than 96 DPI or so, even if you tell Windows you're running a higher DPI. (For example, apps where text goes over the edge of a button, or off the edge of a window, or where dialog boxes wind up with unpushable buttons because the buttons were made larger but the dialog box wasn't.)
Vista/Win7 may be better, but the damage was done with Win2k and XP and all of the people that would scream and complain to their PC manufacturers that everything looked wrong on their new high-DPI displays.
If the problem were HDTV's fault, you would see 1080p laptop displays MUCH more prevalent than they are today. If anything, since the advent of HDTV, it has gotten HARDER to find 1080p displays as PC manufacturers dropped nearly all of them down to 768p because of the font problems.
Dammit, no mod points...
If you have a problem with something like this, disable SSID broadcast.
If your AP is running wide open, well, why the $#*@)@#$ are you doing that? If it's not wide open, why do you care that someone knows there is an AP within range of a certain point on the Earth's surface?
I wonder if these people realize that without this info, location-based services (which half the complainers are probably using) wouldn't work.
What ever happened to Bored@Work?
I think you're confusing profits with income...
If a game sells $300M of units but cost $301M - it lost money.
If a game sells $4M of units but cost $100k - it made lots of money.
(However, in terms of "jobs" and "paid developers" - the big game is better because most of that cost is developer salaries.)
Slight distinction here:
The OMAP core is ARM-based and licensed from ARM, but the chip itself is designed by TI (and I think manufactured by them too)
The A4 core is ARM-based and licensed from ARM, designed by Apple (one of the ex-PASemi teams), and manufactured by Samsung
Um, Google didn't design that. HTC did. It's not very different at all from HTC's Windows Mobile products.
Even the Nexus One isn't a Google design - it's an HTC phone carrying Google branding. (Which is very common, HTC has ALWAYS been very rebranding-friendly, it is only very recently that you started seeing the HTC brand in the United States even though HTC phones have been in the USA for quite a while.)
2/4/5 are basically all I do on my Windows machines. Admittely, I rarely use Windows for anything other than games.
1/3 have often caused more problems than they solve for me once 2/4/5 are in place.
6 is of course the good "oh shit" solution, although in my case I go beyond that and run ClamAV from a Linux partition.
However, Clam frequently doesn't find stuff MBAM finds, and vice versa. Well, I can't really say for sure, I think I've had a grand total of two infections in 6+ years.
Subject line says it all...
When you're behind the wheel, there are only two things you should be paying attention to:
The road and whatever may be present on that road outside of your vehicle.
Kids who are not entertained get noisy. Noisy kids distract you from the road. Distraction from the road can get you and your child killed.
I think the phone was found in "Redwood City, CA", not "Redmond, WA".
Hmm... Then why are companies like Iron Mountain building out LARGE datacenters in caves?
(In most cases, former mines/quarries.)
1) Not caves large enough to drive vehicles in - many mines meet this criteria
2) Same answer as 1 for supplies, for 2 - in many cases they were already "built" for previous purposes (usually, getting valuable materials out of the ground)
3) Not if they're above the water table - many are. Iron Mountain's is, and apparently they're planning on using a nearby underground lake for cooling soon.
4) Not if built/designed correctly.
5) Iron Mountain and the like would prefer to disagree with you on that.
Did these laptops have rules stating that they were never permitted to leave the school grounds?
If so, this may improve the school district's legal standing somewhat, since the students were not supposed to have the laptops in that situation.
If the students WERE permitted to take the laptops home (other articles I have read implied they were), then under what criteria were these laptops suspected stolen? Unless a student reported a laptop as lost or stolen, or a student missed some sort of required inventory check, the administrators have no legitimate reason to suspect the laptop was stolen.
... from their "1984 ad" that announced the Macintosh.
They've gone from releasing the system advertised as "challenging Big Brother" to becoming very much like Big Brother's Thought Police...
It's probably just worded oddly in TFA.
Best way to say it is that the maximum "permitted" power is lower in Europe than in the USA.
What's especially interesting is that there are medical studies showing that high intensity red light can actually have beneficial effects on the skin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_penetrating_light_therapy
The eyes need to be protected from extended exposures like this, but brief exposure to a barcode scanner is not going to damage the eyes. As others have pointed out, these are designed to be "eye safe".