You are right, that forest fires are a natural occurrence.
The problem today is scale and human interference. Around 1900 there where 1 Billion humans. Today there are 7.5. These want to eat, and that is why a lot of fires are man made. Look at south east asia, they have smog every year due to burning rain forest. The second problem is climate change. I can tell you first hand (i fly gliders, i'm a weather junky) that the weather has changed. Not necessarily the amounts of rain / dryness but the cadence. The whole process has sped up considerably, leading to a lot higher occurrences of storms and therefore lighting. So what used to be a once in 10 year event, is now occurring yearly.
Defaults always win. 99% of the users do not install anything else on their phones. Besides try to uninstall the a random google app. If its in the system part of the phone you do not have a chance, unless you root the phone, which is 0.0001% of the users.
This was the same problem with Microsoft and Internet Explorer. Google wouldn't exists without that previous decision.
Facial recognition isn't going to stop a person with a gun in a school. Its a non-solution to the actual problem, that has both a high price in $$$$ and both morally, and ethically.
If you teach the kids that they are so dangerous that they need to be watched 24/7, you might just produce another school shooter.
We need to have some introspection, why and how we create environments for our kids that exert so much pressure that they are willing to kill themselves and other people.
I understand that people are hurt and shocked and demand a quick fix. But one has to realize that there isn't an easy solution to this problem. That it will take a lot of work, and that the process will be painful.
I have never understood why one tries to do the car first.
- its the most complex environment as there is anything from a cat to bike or other car that can suddenly get into your way. There is no fixed track, there are other participants that don't always obey the rules. Traction may vary etc.
- personal cars are a margin business. Expensive sensors, computing units etc are a much larger percentage than in a truck, train, plane or ship. Its just uneconomical.
A lot of functionality which was earlier in android has been absorbed into the google apps. (ActiveSync support for example). Since this stuff is fundamental to many smartphones, i'd like to see it opensourced.
thought i made a spelling mistake, but at least Wikipedia agrees with me.
Winter does bad things to aircraft.;-) ice accumulates at the leading edge of wings and props, until the profile is no longer generating lift.
That is why most aircraft have heating in the wings leading edge and mechanical deformation to break of the ice.
Disclaimer: I'm a Glider Pilot in Europe.
I haven't yet seen a drone that actually operates autnonmously. What I mean by that, is active collision avoidance according to sensory input.
Judging by the amount of noise complaints we get at every airfield in europe.. i doubt people will be very happy to have 100s of drones flying over their heads in the cities.
Certification will not make halt in front of these drones. All equipment in aircraft must be certified. This requirement will still be there if you want to fly the drone in the vicinity of people.
There is the question of miniaturization? How will they fit GPS/Transponder/anti icing technology and the additional power onto such a small platform?
Its a Debian based business Server with an ldap directory backend. It spans multiple servers and roles. It seamlessly integrates samba4, so windows hosts are also happy with it.
It comes with a UCC (Univention Coorporate Client) which you can install via network boot. (just a few clicks.) Its KDE Based, lean and makes a lot of sense. Of course you can also hookup ubuntu.
I have done large installations 2500+ Users as well as 15 users shops with it.
I always bought the tablet series of the X thinkpad. I own a x60t an x61t and now a x220t.
I recently compared the x201t to the x220t. Its a serious backstep. It lacks quite a few leds on the bottom screen. It has a huge think frame around the screen. The frame is also very thick around the keyboard. The keyboard layout was changed. The Touchpad now was to be curbesmly pressed to generate a keypress, no longer dedicated buttons. The keyboard also has been changed to something less klicky.
The cablelayout outside is a mess. Especially that the power cable has moved to the back, and the ethernet to the right, where formerly everything was on the left. I also miss the screen locking mechanism of the old series, a solid latch. Instead i now have rubber pads that constantly go missing.
The plus side is an ips panel and multitouch screen, decent speakers.
First of all: It wouldn' t be the first market that they rolled up from 0% marketshare: see the whole xbox stuff. They have the money reserve to fight a long uphill battle.
If you look at the big picture things start to make sense in their strategy: Basically they want to bundle everything. It doesn't matter where you enter your data (pc|phone|tablet) it will be synchorinzed with skydrive. Your dashboard will look the same regadless of what device you have. Some of the applications will be on all your devices.
They even add all the xbox stuff so you buy your game on your phone and will arrive home to find the game on your xbox.
As for nokia? well they will be on the lifeline until windows 8 is out..
Lets see what kind of marketadoption this will get.
Windows 8 is mainly a feature redux. But this will lead to it that many people who shy away from complex things will buy such a phone.
Switches offer tactile feedback, both that it was pressed and what position it is in. You can find it blindly after some practice.
Touch-screens try to augment this (badly) with vibration, visual or audible cues. This is fine on a phone. In the car the audible works good. But you never know whether you have pressed the right thing.
Also touch screens are fine as long as you are on a smooth road.. but as soon as it gets rough you will have difficulty to operate them.
In Airplanes its even worse. I fly gliders as a hobby.. in the mountains the acceleration forces are so great that you can't even reach the dash properly. Even less hit a certain spot on a flat surface touchscreen. It requires a lot more attention and concentration than "just hitting a switch".
It also helped the jews survive. The Nazis simply did a sort on the list with jewish bank accounts and their ammounts. They just killed and targeted everyone starting from the top. Appropriating the money themselves in the process.
Which was one of the reasons why the swiss adopted bank secrecy laws in 1935.
They have set up all the payphones and highly frequented places with wifi. Their mobile subscriptions offer a transparent authentication process for these hotspots. So if you have a mobile phone from then then it will automatically join these hotspots if you are close.
The main issue with conventional displays is readability in sunlight. Few displays are actually capable of that. Those that are are expensive both $$$ and powerwise. Something that may not be available on every aircraft.
This transponder for GA uses an e-ink display (i think)
http://trig-avionics.com/tt22.html
I'm surprised that its not used more. I guess the slow update speed is an issue, and Graphical LCD displays are moslty enough for the other applications in the cockpit.
What i'd like to see more is electronic flight bags with E-ink.
Great...
Mistake #1: Application obviously runs as root
Mistake #2: Permissions on directory should not be 644 but 600!
Mistake #3: Server with VITAL Data obviously publicly accessible. It should be firewalled in, separate from the webfrontend...
Mistake #4: You use CSV for storing the data???? This is a voting machine? You people SCARE me! This should be WORM device for audit purposes!
I really don't want to know what the rest of the "application" looks like.. Please fire your implementor. This is really asking for it. You are doing a disservice to the people you are supposed to serve!
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You are right, that forest fires are a natural occurrence.
The problem today is scale and human interference.
Around 1900 there where 1 Billion humans. Today there are 7.5. These want to eat, and that is why a lot of fires are man made. Look at south east asia, they have smog every year due to burning rain forest.
The second problem is climate change. I can tell you first hand (i fly gliders, i'm a weather junky) that the weather has changed. Not necessarily the amounts of rain / dryness but the cadence. The whole process has sped up considerably, leading to a lot higher occurrences of storms and therefore lighting.
So what used to be a once in 10 year event, is now occurring yearly.
I want what you are smoking.
Defaults always win. 99% of the users do not install anything else on their phones. Besides try to uninstall the a random google app. If its in the system part of the phone you do not have a chance, unless you root the phone, which is 0.0001% of the users. This was the same problem with Microsoft and Internet Explorer. Google wouldn't exists without that previous decision.
Gnome lost it, when they killed the kazehakase browser. This thing was vi for the web.. but it didn't fit with gnome's feature reducing pattern.
for those curious:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Use mutt and pipe html mails through w3 for formatting.
Facial recognition isn't going to stop a person with a gun in a school. Its a non-solution to the actual problem, that has both a high price in $$$$ and both morally, and ethically.
If you teach the kids that they are so dangerous that they need to be watched 24/7, you might just produce another school shooter.
We need to have some introspection, why and how we create environments for our kids that exert so much pressure that they are willing to kill themselves and other people.
I understand that people are hurt and shocked and demand a quick fix. But one has to realize that there isn't an easy solution to this problem. That it will take a lot of work, and that the process will be painful.
I have never understood why one tries to do the car first. - its the most complex environment as there is anything from a cat to bike or other car that can suddenly get into your way. There is no fixed track, there are other participants that don't always obey the rules. Traction may vary etc. - personal cars are a margin business. Expensive sensors, computing units etc are a much larger percentage than in a truck, train, plane or ship. Its just uneconomical.
A lot of functionality which was earlier in android has been absorbed into the google apps. (ActiveSync support for example). Since this stuff is fundamental to many smartphones, i'd like to see it opensourced.
Virtually all the entertainment systems on airplanes today run linux.
thought i made a spelling mistake, but at least Wikipedia agrees with me. Winter does bad things to aircraft. ;-) ice accumulates at the leading edge of wings and props, until the profile is no longer generating lift.
That is why most aircraft have heating in the wings leading edge and mechanical deformation to break of the ice.
Disclaimer: I'm a Glider Pilot in Europe. I haven't yet seen a drone that actually operates autnonmously. What I mean by that, is active collision avoidance according to sensory input. Judging by the amount of noise complaints we get at every airfield in europe.. i doubt people will be very happy to have 100s of drones flying over their heads in the cities. Certification will not make halt in front of these drones. All equipment in aircraft must be certified. This requirement will still be there if you want to fly the drone in the vicinity of people. There is the question of miniaturization? How will they fit GPS/Transponder/anti icing technology and the additional power onto such a small platform?
Its a Debian based business Server with an ldap directory backend. It spans multiple servers and roles. It seamlessly integrates samba4, so windows hosts are also happy with it.
It comes with a UCC (Univention Coorporate Client) which you can install via network boot. (just a few clicks.) Its KDE Based, lean and makes a lot of sense. Of course you can also hookup ubuntu.
I have done large installations 2500+ Users as well as 15 users shops with it.
http://univention.de/
Wouldn't a collaboration between ESA NASA JPL CSPA Roscosmos be more fruitful? Space race is so last century. - Folken
I saw this too now.. thats idiotic.
I doubt this affects many people. Or do you seriously still use Itanium in 2014?
I always bought the tablet series of the X thinkpad. I own a x60t an x61t and now a x220t.
I recently compared the x201t to the x220t. Its a serious backstep.
It lacks quite a few leds on the bottom screen. It has a huge think frame around the screen. The frame is also very thick around the keyboard. The keyboard layout was changed. The Touchpad now was to be curbesmly pressed to generate a keypress, no longer dedicated buttons. The keyboard also has been changed to something less klicky.
The cablelayout outside is a mess. Especially that the power cable has moved to the back, and the ethernet to the right, where formerly everything was on the left.
I also miss the screen locking mechanism of the old series, a solid latch. Instead i now have rubber pads that constantly go missing.
The plus side is an ips panel and multitouch screen, decent speakers.
I will see if lenovo is buyable in the future....
(Disclaimer: I'm no fan of M$)
First of all: It wouldn' t be the first market that they rolled up from 0% marketshare: see the whole xbox stuff. They have the money reserve to fight a long uphill battle.
If you look at the big picture things start to make sense in their strategy: Basically they want to bundle everything. It doesn't matter where you enter your data (pc|phone|tablet) it will be synchorinzed with skydrive. Your dashboard will look the same regadless of what device you have. Some of the applications will be on all your devices.
They even add all the xbox stuff so you buy your game on your phone and will arrive home to find the game on your xbox.
As for nokia? well they will be on the lifeline until windows 8 is out..
Lets see what kind of marketadoption this will get.
Windows 8 is mainly a feature redux. But this will lead to it that many people who shy away from complex things will buy such a phone.
Switches offer tactile feedback, both that it was pressed and what position it is in. You can find it blindly after some practice.
Touch-screens try to augment this (badly) with vibration, visual or audible cues. This is fine on a phone. In the car the audible works good. But you never know whether you have pressed the right thing.
Also touch screens are fine as long as you are on a smooth road.. but as soon as it gets rough you will have difficulty to operate them.
In Airplanes its even worse. I fly gliders as a hobby.. in the mountains the acceleration forces are so great that you can't even reach the dash properly. Even less hit a certain spot on a flat surface touchscreen. It requires a lot more attention and concentration than "just hitting a switch".
It also helped the jews survive. The Nazis simply did a sort on the list with jewish bank accounts and their ammounts. They just killed and targeted everyone starting from the top. Appropriating the money themselves in the process.
Which was one of the reasons why the swiss adopted bank secrecy laws in 1935.
Way ahead of you... It's simply impossible now to open a swiss bank account with american citizenship.
And they started now to include hotspots on trains/trams and busses.
(I don't work for them, nor am i their customer)
They have set up all the payphones and highly frequented places with wifi. Their mobile subscriptions offer a transparent authentication process for these hotspots. So if you have a mobile phone from then then it will automatically join these hotspots if you are close.
The main issue with conventional displays is readability in sunlight. Few displays are actually capable of that. Those that are are expensive both $$$ and powerwise. Something that may not be available on every aircraft. This transponder for GA uses an e-ink display (i think) http://trig-avionics.com/tt22.html I'm surprised that its not used more. I guess the slow update speed is an issue, and Graphical LCD displays are moslty enough for the other applications in the cockpit. What i'd like to see more is electronic flight bags with E-ink.
What they did:
* Modularize/Standardize Infrastructure, e.g. storage & computing power
* Build provisioning systems
* Virtualize everything
When they say that they are flexible, they mean that they have a lot of dark hardware lying around.
Great...
Mistake #1: Application obviously runs as root
Mistake #2: Permissions on directory should not be 644 but 600!
Mistake #3: Server with VITAL Data obviously publicly accessible. It should be firewalled in, separate from the webfrontend...
Mistake #4: You use CSV for storing the data???? This is a voting machine? You people SCARE me! This should be WORM device for audit purposes!
I really don't want to know what the rest of the "application" looks like.. Please fire your implementor. This is really asking for it. You are doing a disservice to the people you are supposed to serve!