The whole point if an AED is to reduce the training required to render lifesaving defibrillation assistance down to the level of "untrained idiot who happens by." If your company makes AEDs which require "proper training" to operate beyond "follow the pictorial or verbal instructions," you're doing it wrong.
Battery longevity depends upon usage. One of the most important elements is known as "Depth of Discharge" (DoD). That's the fraction of the battery's theoretical capacity which you discharge during a normal cycle.
The longevity, or "cycle life" depends heavily on the depth of discharge. With, for instance, lithium ion cells typically lasting for roughly 500 cycles (the number of cycles before the capacity is reduced by half) at a DoD of 80%.
If that was your design point, then in an emergency you most certainly can still access the remaining capacity at a cost of damaging the cell more severely than an ordinary cycle. In the extreme case where you are somehow able to discharge all the way to zero, or even past it, you can kill a battery with just the one cycle. You might need to use a charge pump to get the very last "drops", as there is a point at which the voltage falls off very quickly in modern cells.
Still, depending on the battery, in certain emergencies, it would definitely be worth it.
There are lots of phones like that on the market. Except for the screen thing, which is frustrating...
But none of those phones are sexy. In exactly the same way that a garbage truck is not sexy. They get the job done with very little maintenance, but their lack of frills makes them feel utilitarian.
Their lack of the very features you decry are precisely the reason you have been ignoring them!
Phones are jewelry now, as watches have been for some time. Personally, I think it makes a lot more sense to spend $1200 on a stupid phone with features you won't use than on a bracelet made of shiny metal and inset with white crystalline carbon allotropes mined at the low cost of children's fingers and overall health.
Regular irony is what happens to your drinking water when the junk yard dumps its old car bodies in the reservoir.
Or when a robot reads the definition of "irony" from the OED during a one-off production of the greatest opera ever.
Magnetite suspended in oil is pretty irony, too.
Your tin foil hat example is just plain, old, ordinary unfortunate coincidence. a.k.a alanian irony. Calling it "tin foil" when it's actually aluminum, however...
BTW, the the white wine thing actually is irony (well, fairly loosely). See, in the song, it seems like she's saying that the fly ruined the wine. But the wine is chardonnay, so it's actually the other way around.
Usenet made the internet cheaper. The local-caches (and their size depending only on how much the companies felt like spending on them), reduced the cross-backbone transport of bits in favor of the much, much, cheaper local transport, which benefitted everyone, even the people who didn't use usenet (by ameliorating some of the capacity improvements the providers would have otherwise had to make.)
When the equation didn't factor so well, usenet started to be phased out.
Geeks were saddened by this, but recognize the economic realities.
DC used to have the highest gun violence and murder rates in the country. The decline does seem to have some correlation with the widespread-ed-ness of the internet...
My pocket holds my phone at a safe distance already.
Women tend to put them in their hip pocket (when they have one), btw. Men use the front pockets. Not much difference except for the risk of butt-dialing.
I don't know where people are putting smartphones, though. They don't look like they'd be very comfortable in either pocket unless you didn't walk around much.
Car insurance costs less if you have a car that statistically is less likely to get in an accident and cause costly damage, or you yourself are less likely to do so, based on a few metrics.
Where's your equivalent functionality in antivirus?
The real problem, for me, is that in the MMO world, only a precious few aren't based on D20, and they are often functionally nearly equivalent, and they simply don't have the resources of the large game houses to get the polish they need anyway.
Now, if you could point out even one mmorpg (other than second life) that, if it has a combat mechanic, is deterministic (even something like the vga version of Quest for Glory II would be an improvement), i'd be much obliged.
My issues are twofold:
I really, really don't find D20-ish computer rpgs a lot of fun. I might find tabletop gaming fun if I had the inclination to play, but I don't think the things that make tabletop gaming acceptable would cross over to computer gaming. You really can't have a GM for every five or so players in a mass-market computer game.
I'm upset by the fact that I'm in such a minority that it's not even worth trying to serve.
that's ok. All the people who they increase the tax on will just declare bankruptcy themselves and have their judges scrap/change their obligation under the law.
Seriously, you're saying that if they go bankrupt, a judge can just declare "ok, your employer has to pay you more. end of discussion." I believe it. I'm terrified by it, though.
How much does it cost to actually print a textbook? For the time being, paper books are superior as a display medium, and it doesn't look like that's going to change in the next five years. (ten... maybe?)
But there's no reason why they shouldn't be able to print the online texts. Heck, a state as large as California ought to be able to commission its own textbooks as works for hire and print as many as they want.
If the marginal cost of actually manufacturing the book is so close to the price they're paying, then I really don't see how moving to online books helps in the near term, electronic devices for displaying texts just don't stand up to the kind of abuse that k-8 students will heap upon them without even realizing it. If the prices really are close, though, then maybe the textbook companies really aren't ripping them off...
Call me when it's not just another minor variation on D20. That was my disappointment, coming from "Tradewars" into the graphical RPGs. After five minutes, "so.. it's just a dice-rolling game, then?"
I mean.. Yahtzee with a story behind it only works for so long before you have to change something other than just the story.
ere's been one thing that's been consistent through it all, and one thing only: loudmouth parents who won't shut up and let schools teach.
Maybe.
Though it always seems to me that it's either the loudmouth parents you mention, or the awol parents who never come in for a conference.
The main thing I can see that the two groups have in common is that they aren't doing what the blessed authority (the teacher) tells them to do, and I suspect that every parent that doesn't cooperate in exactly the right way has a chance of getting pigeonholed into one of the two categories. or both....
Ask your wife if parent-teacher conferences are really a meeting of equals, or if they're more of a chance for teachers to bring the parents on board the latest bandwagon solution themselves.
Now, how can we use this to eliminate the counterculture where it is good to be stupid?
Does this mean that kids are 39.6% smarter than we thought they were? They just needed a reason to show it?
1) beatings. Only half-joking. the idea that it's good to be stupid is something that does need to be stamped out, though.
2) probably. maybe even smarter than that. an 11 year old just got a degree in Astrophysics. Is he so far ahead of his ostensible peers? Or is it more likely that 11 year olds, in general, are vastly underestimated and under-served? (not to say that every 11 year old is capable of advanced physics, but perhaps much, much, more than we're offering them.)
I always thought that LCD (uh.. displays...) would be a natural fit for polarized lenses. How hard would it be to stick an additional perpendicular layer and drive it in such a way as to have different levels at each pixel depending on the polarization angle?
Sure, you couldn't do circular polarization, but that doesn't really help much anyway, as you really need to keep your head pretty level for it to work, anyway. Personally, I don't find wearing sunglasses to be all that bad of a proposition, for the benefit.
That review would've been a lot easier to take if halfway down the demonstration of the camera wasn't a picture of a desk with assorted Apple hardware piled all around...
No, they should be required, by law, to state prominently on the packaging, how long they plan to maintain the servers. And it should be considered a binding contract.
I don't care what the terms of the contract are, so long as they're openly stated. Everything has a value to me, including heavily drm'd music with no guarantee of longevity. It's just that something like that I would only be willing to pay very little for.
Or he would be if he was the guy to *abolish* the DoEd. (Which I assume you meant, as the DoE isn't really involved in education, per se)
The only thing that the federal government should do with respect to education is fund a few studies here and there to help establish guidelines for states and communities to use in forming their education plans. Nationally homogenizing education just means that any mistakes or inefficiencies happen everywhere, nation-wide.
Maybe they could also administer some kind of ranking system so communities could compete, too, although I'm not sure that that wouldn't be best done by a coalition of universities (or a few coalitions of universities, so there's even competition there as well.)
But they should be doing anything that requires cabinet level funding and access.
Those aren't taxes. They make their business costs look like taxes to avoid making them part of the price. Go ahead and ask a representative some time what those extra things are.
For instance, 911 and e911 are not services run by the governement. They are run by the phone companies. The government requires them to run them, it's true, but the government doesn't tell them how much they're supposed to cost, or take money from the system. It's simply a normal cost of regulatory compliance, and as such really ought to be folded into the price.
If you've got some balls, see if you can get away with telling them that the advertised price (plus legitimate sales tax) is all you're going to pay....
And yes, I'm saddend that I used the phrase "get away with" to refer to your actions, and not the phone companies actions, as they're clearly able to get away with billing you more than the agreed upon monthly fee.
Once launched, the missile is detected by the Guardian system, which then directs a non-visible, eye-safe laser to the seeker of the incoming missile, disrupting its guidance signals, and protecting the aircraft.
So, no, that wouldn't be any help against normal meteors. Unless you're posting guided meteors. In which case, we have bigger troubles on the horizon than just a plane crash...
Arbitrage isn't a right, it's a phenomenon. A force of nature. If something is being sold for less than it's perceived value, people will snap up the difference. It might not be a "protected right" but you've got as much chance of stopping it as you do of banning people from picking their noses when they think no one is looking.
Worse, banning arbitrage hurts the market by keeping prices from sliding to market clearing levels, resulting in shortage.
But that has more meaning for, say, concert tickets, or new console releases than it does for reselling of used games. Perhaps you're thinking of market segregation, a problem created by companies in certain industries, and which arbitrage solves.
Huh? Last I checked both Windows Vista Ultimate Edition and OS X 10.5 "Leopard" on-every-new-machine-that-apple-ships edition include encryption right out of the box.
And linux, of course, which doesn't shoehorn you into "full disk only" or "specified dirs only" depending on who's logo is on the machine.
And every browser on those three OSes and most others has its own encryption or uses the OS's built-in encryption for storage of auto-fill data.
Who, exactly, does having encryption incriminate, again?
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The whole point if an AED is to reduce the training required to render lifesaving defibrillation assistance down to the level of "untrained idiot who happens by." If your company makes AEDs which require "proper training" to operate beyond "follow the pictorial or verbal instructions," you're doing it wrong.
Battery longevity depends upon usage. One of the most important elements is known as "Depth of Discharge" (DoD). That's the fraction of the battery's theoretical capacity which you discharge during a normal cycle.
The longevity, or "cycle life" depends heavily on the depth of discharge. With, for instance, lithium ion cells typically lasting for roughly 500 cycles (the number of cycles before the capacity is reduced by half) at a DoD of 80%.
If that was your design point, then in an emergency you most certainly can still access the remaining capacity at a cost of damaging the cell more severely than an ordinary cycle. In the extreme case where you are somehow able to discharge all the way to zero, or even past it, you can kill a battery with just the one cycle. You might need to use a charge pump to get the very last "drops", as there is a point at which the voltage falls off very quickly in modern cells.
Still, depending on the battery, in certain emergencies, it would definitely be worth it.
There are lots of phones like that on the market. Except for the screen thing, which is frustrating...
But none of those phones are sexy. In exactly the same way that a garbage truck is not sexy. They get the job done with very little maintenance, but their lack of frills makes them feel utilitarian.
Their lack of the very features you decry are precisely the reason you have been ignoring them!
Phones are jewelry now, as watches have been for some time. Personally, I think it makes a lot more sense to spend $1200 on a stupid phone with features you won't use than on a bracelet made of shiny metal and inset with white crystalline carbon allotropes mined at the low cost of children's fingers and overall health.
Regular irony is what happens to your drinking water when the junk yard dumps its old car bodies in the reservoir.
Or when a robot reads the definition of "irony" from the OED during a one-off production of the greatest opera ever.
Magnetite suspended in oil is pretty irony, too.
Your tin foil hat example is just plain, old, ordinary unfortunate coincidence. a.k.a alanian irony. Calling it "tin foil" when it's actually aluminum, however...
BTW, the the white wine thing actually is irony (well, fairly loosely). See, in the song, it seems like she's saying that the fly ruined the wine. But the wine is chardonnay, so it's actually the other way around.
Usenet made the internet cheaper. The local-caches (and their size depending only on how much the companies felt like spending on them), reduced the cross-backbone transport of bits in favor of the much, much, cheaper local transport, which benefitted everyone, even the people who didn't use usenet (by ameliorating some of the capacity improvements the providers would have otherwise had to make.)
When the equation didn't factor so well, usenet started to be phased out.
Geeks were saddened by this, but recognize the economic realities.
So, you're saying that the solution for us is, if we find we're blocked, to call up and not-complain?
Because, how are they even going to know about the people who don't complain unless they fail to complain as loudly as the complainers?
DC used to have the highest gun violence and murder rates in the country. The decline does seem to have some correlation with the widespread-ed-ness of the internet...
My pocket holds my phone at a safe distance already.
Women tend to put them in their hip pocket (when they have one), btw. Men use the front pockets. Not much difference except for the risk of butt-dialing.
I don't know where people are putting smartphones, though. They don't look like they'd be very comfortable in either pocket unless you didn't walk around much.
Car insurance costs less if you have a car that statistically is less likely to get in an accident and cause costly damage, or you yourself are less likely to do so, based on a few metrics.
Where's your equivalent functionality in antivirus?
True. Although a lot of those people are boring.
The real problem, for me, is that in the MMO world, only a precious few aren't based on D20, and they are often functionally nearly equivalent, and they simply don't have the resources of the large game houses to get the polish they need anyway.
Now, if you could point out even one mmorpg (other than second life) that, if it has a combat mechanic, is deterministic (even something like the vga version of Quest for Glory II would be an improvement), i'd be much obliged.
My issues are twofold:
that's ok. All the people who they increase the tax on will just declare bankruptcy themselves and have their judges scrap/change their obligation under the law.
Seriously, you're saying that if they go bankrupt, a judge can just declare "ok, your employer has to pay you more. end of discussion." I believe it. I'm terrified by it, though.
How much does it cost to actually print a textbook? For the time being, paper books are superior as a display medium, and it doesn't look like that's going to change in the next five years. (ten... maybe?)
But there's no reason why they shouldn't be able to print the online texts. Heck, a state as large as California ought to be able to commission its own textbooks as works for hire and print as many as they want.
If the marginal cost of actually manufacturing the book is so close to the price they're paying, then I really don't see how moving to online books helps in the near term, electronic devices for displaying texts just don't stand up to the kind of abuse that k-8 students will heap upon them without even realizing it. If the prices really are close, though, then maybe the textbook companies really aren't ripping them off...
Call me when it's not just another minor variation on D20. That was my disappointment, coming from "Tradewars" into the graphical RPGs. After five minutes, "so.. it's just a dice-rolling game, then?"
I mean.. Yahtzee with a story behind it only works for so long before you have to change something other than just the story.
ere's been one thing that's been consistent through it all, and one thing only: loudmouth parents who won't shut up and let schools teach.
Maybe.
Though it always seems to me that it's either the loudmouth parents you mention, or the awol parents who never come in for a conference.
The main thing I can see that the two groups have in common is that they aren't doing what the blessed authority (the teacher) tells them to do, and I suspect that every parent that doesn't cooperate in exactly the right way has a chance of getting pigeonholed into one of the two categories. or both....
Ask your wife if parent-teacher conferences are really a meeting of equals, or if they're more of a chance for teachers to bring the parents on board the latest bandwagon solution themselves.
Now, how can we use this to eliminate the counterculture where it is good to be stupid?
Does this mean that kids are 39.6% smarter than we thought they were? They just needed a reason to show it?
1) beatings. Only half-joking. the idea that it's good to be stupid is something that does need to be stamped out, though.
2) probably. maybe even smarter than that. an 11 year old just got a degree in Astrophysics. Is he so far ahead of his ostensible peers? Or is it more likely that 11 year olds, in general, are vastly underestimated and under-served? (not to say that every 11 year old is capable of advanced physics, but perhaps much, much, more than we're offering them.)
I always thought that LCD (uh.. displays...) would be a natural fit for polarized lenses. How hard would it be to stick an additional perpendicular layer and drive it in such a way as to have different levels at each pixel depending on the polarization angle?
Sure, you couldn't do circular polarization, but that doesn't really help much anyway, as you really need to keep your head pretty level for it to work, anyway. Personally, I don't find wearing sunglasses to be all that bad of a proposition, for the benefit.
That review would've been a lot easier to take if halfway down the demonstration of the camera wasn't a picture of a desk with assorted Apple hardware piled all around...
No, they should be required, by law, to state prominently on the packaging, how long they plan to maintain the servers. And it should be considered a binding contract.
I don't care what the terms of the contract are, so long as they're openly stated. Everything has a value to me, including heavily drm'd music with no guarantee of longevity. It's just that something like that I would only be willing to pay very little for.
Or he would be if he was the guy to *abolish* the DoEd. (Which I assume you meant, as the DoE isn't really involved in education, per se)
The only thing that the federal government should do with respect to education is fund a few studies here and there to help establish guidelines for states and communities to use in forming their education plans. Nationally homogenizing education just means that any mistakes or inefficiencies happen everywhere, nation-wide.
Maybe they could also administer some kind of ranking system so communities could compete, too, although I'm not sure that that wouldn't be best done by a coalition of universities (or a few coalitions of universities, so there's even competition there as well.)
But they should be doing anything that requires cabinet level funding and access.
Those aren't taxes. They make their business costs look like taxes to avoid making them part of the price. Go ahead and ask a representative some time what those extra things are.
For instance, 911 and e911 are not services run by the governement. They are run by the phone companies. The government requires them to run them, it's true, but the government doesn't tell them how much they're supposed to cost, or take money from the system. It's simply a normal cost of regulatory compliance, and as such really ought to be folded into the price.
If you've got some balls, see if you can get away with telling them that the advertised price (plus legitimate sales tax) is all you're going to pay....
And yes, I'm saddend that I used the phrase "get away with" to refer to your actions, and not the phone companies actions, as they're clearly able to get away with billing you more than the agreed upon monthly fee.
Once launched, the missile is detected by the Guardian system, which then directs a non-visible, eye-safe laser to the seeker of the incoming missile, disrupting its guidance signals, and protecting the aircraft.
So, no, that wouldn't be any help against normal meteors. Unless you're posting guided meteors. In which case, we have bigger troubles on the horizon than just a plane crash...
If they're making so much money, how come every single one of them smells like someone peed on the carpets?
Arbitrage isn't a right, it's a phenomenon. A force of nature. If something is being sold for less than it's perceived value, people will snap up the difference. It might not be a "protected right" but you've got as much chance of stopping it as you do of banning people from picking their noses when they think no one is looking.
Worse, banning arbitrage hurts the market by keeping prices from sliding to market clearing levels, resulting in shortage.
But that has more meaning for, say, concert tickets, or new console releases than it does for reselling of used games. Perhaps you're thinking of market segregation, a problem created by companies in certain industries, and which arbitrage solves.
Boobies =/= Tits.
Huh? Last I checked both Windows Vista Ultimate Edition and OS X 10.5 "Leopard" on-every-new-machine-that-apple-ships edition include encryption right out of the box.
And linux, of course, which doesn't shoehorn you into "full disk only" or "specified dirs only" depending on who's logo is on the machine.
And every browser on those three OSes and most others has its own encryption or uses the OS's built-in encryption for storage of auto-fill data.
Who, exactly, does having encryption incriminate, again?