Some of us prefer a text-based browser (in my case elinks).
The advertisers can always opt to in-text ads (see Google model), or at least make them fit into the page's color scheme, make them less obtrusive, small and fast to load, if possible relevant, and - for gods' sake - NO ANIMATIONS and no popups. Much fewer people will then bother with ad blocking.
The Peltier should theoretically be able to serve as a thermocouple. You can easily measure the temperature of its heatsink (by slapping a thermistor on it), and the voltage on the unloaded Peltier should be proportional to the temperature difference of its sides. From the temperature of one side and the difference you should be able to get the temperature of the CPU. Then you can regulate the thermal flux through the Peltier by eg. pulse-width modulation control of its driving current, and alternate the cooling and measuring cycles.
Or you could somehow use the on-chip diode or the temperature sensing diode mounted on the motherboard under the CPU.
Never tried it, it's just a theory, but it should work.:)
You can only pump the heat around. It usually ends up in the heatsinks at the back of the cooling machines, from where it dissipates into the lab, rising its temperature slightly. Like a common kitchen refrigerator.
If I remember correctly, it's rather that the electrons form Cooper pairs and they almost stop interacting with the crystal lattice of the material. There are materials - notably the YBaCuO ceramics - that get superconductive at the liquid nitrogen temperature, which is quite hot - enough to keep the lattice vibrating like mad. I forgot a lot about it, though...
Better idea: get one card to generate image for the left eye, the other one for the right eye, and feed the head motion sensors right into the cards so the position update is couple milliseconds faster. We're finally getting the machines good enough for VR while still being affordable. Just hope the displays will get cheaper soon.
I don't know how you, but I personally mourn the times when the computers used to come with schematics. I still have the docs for my C64 and maybe even for my PC-XT clone. When deciding about a purchase, unless the device is in the price range of throwaway stuff, I check if I can get access to the documentation (so things with docs leaked to the Net, or from the vendors in whose shops I have friends, are strongly prefered). Sadly, access to the internal working of devices is getting worse and worse. I fiercely dislike the black-box world we're all so eagerly heading into, and any way to slow it down, being it legal or illegal, is good enough for me.
Another possibility is to set up a webmail for her on a machine under your own control, under HTTPS, and give her a certificate-based access.
Yet another possibility is to set up a SMTP/POP account, again on your own machine, and wrap the connections to it in SSL. If all the send/receive connections are protected by SSL, either by a native client support or by wrapping them in stunnel, and there is either no mail relaying (only one SMTP server, which if you both use the same machine is the situation, or all the servers in the chain
use STARTTLS), then the spooks have much more difficult day.
Why wipers? Could it be possible to just put piezoelectric transducers into the panels, so they could shake the dust off? It should be pretty dry dust by now.
Or, when the timing is tight, jsut use a standard anti-tank missile.
Related idea: Is there a possibility of sabot-type shotgun slugs that could act as kinetic penetrators against this kind of panzer? Maybe depleted uranium or tungsten cores?
There was a program for PCs as well, that was able to stuff up to 83 tracks and up to 21 sectors per track on a 3.5" floppy; I think it was called "fdformat" and needed either a compliant BIOS or a resident program called "fdread". There was also a program for very fast floppy disk duplication, "hdcopy", also capable of formatting floppies to higher capacities.
Tax for photocopying internal documents? We have a per-copy tax too, but I am not sure if it applies to internal documents as well as it may well be possible to be subtracted from the income taxes or some other accounting equilibristics.
However, I found that for storage and transport and occassional reference it's much easier to store the documents as scanned files, and print them out only on demand. Which saves not only on the tax, but also on the toner and paper. A high-resolution digital camera (3 MPix is enough) serves quite well as a very fast and very improvised scanner, I use it recently eg. instead of clipping articles from the newspapers or magazines. Can make a not-really-good-but-legible copy of two A4 pages of an open magazine, though suffers from the deformations as the paper tends to not be entirely flat, and the flash tends to be too bright (which can be alleviated with couple layers of semitransparent tape over it).
Maybe a better idea could be to sell the ipods without media, just slightly modified to allow use of generic anything with IDE bus - from 2.5" stock laptop IDE drives to CompactFlash cards and Microdrives - and sell those separately. Maybe even with an in-store installation, but still sold separately. More choice for the consumer (wider range of media), cost savings (no tax, or levy, or rather robbery, or whatever name it has).
...take all the hard drives to the national magnetics research laboratory...
Cheaper way: sandpaper the plates. Also known as "NSA data wipe".
However, don't forget the bits and pieces of code laying all around under Shared Source. Once they get a go to be released, they could be assembled to complete, or at least reasonably complete, source code. Or ask the Chinese nicely. They reportedly got a peek (quite likely more than just a peek) at the source, not so long after Microsoft claimed that disclosing the code to the judge (or something like that) would harm the US national security.
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The advertisers can always opt to in-text ads (see Google model), or at least make them fit into the page's color scheme, make them less obtrusive, small and fast to load, if possible relevant, and - for gods' sake - NO ANIMATIONS and no popups. Much fewer people will then bother with ad blocking.
Could be blocked by them, though. TinyURL
It's about time.
It's our HTTP request headers, we can put in there whatever we want. 1:1, score tied, the game continues.
Start blocking links and the people start telling their browsers to fake or not send http-referer: to the offending servers.
Or you could somehow use the on-chip diode or the temperature sensing diode mounted on the motherboard under the CPU.
Never tried it, it's just a theory, but it should work. :)
You can only pump the heat around. It usually ends up in the heatsinks at the back of the cooling machines, from where it dissipates into the lab, rising its temperature slightly. Like a common kitchen refrigerator.
If I remember correctly, it's rather that the electrons form Cooper pairs and they almost stop interacting with the crystal lattice of the material. There are materials - notably the YBaCuO ceramics - that get superconductive at the liquid nitrogen temperature, which is quite hot - enough to keep the lattice vibrating like mad. I forgot a lot about it, though...
Better idea: get one card to generate image for the left eye, the other one for the right eye, and feed the head motion sensors right into the cards so the position update is couple milliseconds faster. We're finally getting the machines good enough for VR while still being affordable. Just hope the displays will get cheaper soon.
Regardless how it looks, it works nicely. A barcode scanner for the price you can't beat!
There are worse cancerogens than electromagnetic fields. Fried foods, air pollution, stress...
Nope. They'll just transfer viruses.
I don't know how you, but I personally mourn the times when the computers used to come with schematics. I still have the docs for my C64 and maybe even for my PC-XT clone. When deciding about a purchase, unless the device is in the price range of throwaway stuff, I check if I can get access to the documentation (so things with docs leaked to the Net, or from the vendors in whose shops I have friends, are strongly prefered). Sadly, access to the internal working of devices is getting worse and worse. I fiercely dislike the black-box world we're all so eagerly heading into, and any way to slow it down, being it legal or illegal, is good enough for me.
Not that big problem. There are USB-to-RS232 convertors of many flavors, my favorite is the FT232BM chipset.
Easy as a pie. Use unlicenced players instead.
The question is, will you have a choice? Will there still be printed catalogs available for anything else than the Top-40?
Yet another possibility is to set up a SMTP/POP account, again on your own machine, and wrap the connections to it in SSL. If all the send/receive connections are protected by SSL, either by a native client support or by wrapping them in stunnel, and there is either no mail relaying (only one SMTP server, which if you both use the same machine is the situation, or all the servers in the chain use STARTTLS), then the spooks have much more difficult day.
See eg. GPG Relay. It's a nice proxy for transparent encryption of email.
Why wipers? Could it be possible to just put piezoelectric transducers into the panels, so they could shake the dust off? It should be pretty dry dust by now.
Related idea: Is there a possibility of sabot-type shotgun slugs that could act as kinetic penetrators against this kind of panzer? Maybe depleted uranium or tungsten cores?
Memories, sweet memories...
However, I found that for storage and transport and occassional reference it's much easier to store the documents as scanned files, and print them out only on demand. Which saves not only on the tax, but also on the toner and paper. A high-resolution digital camera (3 MPix is enough) serves quite well as a very fast and very improvised scanner, I use it recently eg. instead of clipping articles from the newspapers or magazines. Can make a not-really-good-but-legible copy of two A4 pages of an open magazine, though suffers from the deformations as the paper tends to not be entirely flat, and the flash tends to be too bright (which can be alleviated with couple layers of semitransparent tape over it).
Not at all. A brief look at the quality of their code is enough to serve as a solid rebuttal of this claim.
Maybe a better idea could be to sell the ipods without media, just slightly modified to allow use of generic anything with IDE bus - from 2.5" stock laptop IDE drives to CompactFlash cards and Microdrives - and sell those separately. Maybe even with an in-store installation, but still sold separately. More choice for the consumer (wider range of media), cost savings (no tax, or levy, or rather robbery, or whatever name it has).
Cheaper way: sandpaper the plates. Also known as "NSA data wipe".
However, don't forget the bits and pieces of code laying all around under Shared Source. Once they get a go to be released, they could be assembled to complete, or at least reasonably complete, source code. Or ask the Chinese nicely. They reportedly got a peek (quite likely more than just a peek) at the source, not so long after Microsoft claimed that disclosing the code to the judge (or something like that) would harm the US national security.