Either you work in a very very crowded area, or San Diego is seriously slacking in the Wireless department
And giving each WAP an average range of 100 feet to your phone
Downtown core in a city of 200k.
My number is probably inflated a bit given that my desk is ~80m off the ground and next to a window. According to opensignal's DB, some of the networks I'm detecting are 1000+ feet away.
Some napkin math, assuming he purchased the phone in July 2008 when 3G went on sale, and it's been in use constantly for the last 57 months... and ball-parking 30 days/month... he hit 40 Wi-Fi points and 36 cell towers every day.
Not that difficult. Just sitting at my desk, my Galaxy S3 picks up 36 Wi-Fi networks. I probably walk past that many again on my way to work. And a few dozen more any time I walk into an apartment building.
I consider it rather mystical how any Wi-Fi network is able to function at all with this amount of crowding in the channels.
"Fancy tank" is understating the issue. Hydrogen stored at 5000psi and used for an ICE will get you about 1/5th the range of the same volume of gasoline.
1. Correct. 2. No. Mining is basically processing and verifying transactions. You take a select a set of transactions from the ones you've received from the network (until a transaction has been included in a block, it hasn't really happened), along with the previous block's hash value and a nonce, and hash it. You keep increment the nonce or adding transactions or rearranging them until you or someone else gets a block where the hash value is less than the target value. The first person (or pool) to find such a block receives the block reward (aka the block subsidy), which is 25 (previously 50) newly created bitcoins and then the process starts again. 3. Some client might use that nomenclature, but the usual format is decimal, usually with SI prefixes (mBTC, uBTC, nBTC). 4. Bitcoins aren't really kept anywhere. You keep the private keys to the bitcoins in your wallet file. The public database is the blockchain, which can be though of like a massive accounting ledger. It contains all the transactions between all known bitcoin addresses. 5. Yes. 6. Yes.
Yes. The greenhouse effect is a very good thing as far as complex life is concerned. Without it, the Earth would have a mean surface temperature of about -18C, compared to the actual one of about 14C.
Bell and Telus aren't the same. Telus is what used to be Alberta Government Telephones and BC Tel. The former was privatized in 1991 and merged with the latter in 1998. It's an excellent example of why privatizing crowns is a bad idea.
Bell's other brand is Virgin and Telus has the brand Koodoo.
Still is, technically. The communism control act (50 USC, Chapter 23, Subchapter IV), which outlawed the Communist Party of the United States, was never repealed or struck down, the latter because it was never actually enforced, and thus never went to court.
Benzene in the frac fluid? Nobody adds benzene to frac fluid.
Really? Then why is it listed as a constituent?
Opening your Haliburton link and picking North Dakota at random, the first constituent listed for "North Dakota Bakken Hybrid Formulation 1" is 1,2,4 Trimethylbenzene.
Not so great when you consider that our electricity here in Estonia comes mostly from oil shale which means there is no environmental advantage to electric vehicles.
Sure there is. One big plant is far more efficient than hundreds of little engines, even after accounting for transmission and charging losses. You also save quite a lot of energy by not having to crack/upgrade the shale into gasoline/diesel.
If you paid for a subsidized phone under a contract then no until that contract is over, then yes you should be able to.
Why? The contract is not a covenant to only use their service. It's an agreement to pay a monthly bill in exchange for some service (which you may or may not use).
If I want to travel outside the country and use a reasonably-priced local carrier rather than allowing my country's carrier to shove a parking cone labeled "insane roaming fees" up my ass, the carrier should be invited to go piss up a rope.
Citation provided. Page 7 has the varying standards for the USA, Canada, the EU, Japan, and the Nordic countries. 4pg is the different standards averaged.
Nuclear power can't stand alone, at least with current reactor designs, because their output can't be ramped up or down very quickly.
It is possible, but it makes things way more expensive and complex. The Bruce Nuclear Station manages it with booster/absorber rods to overcome xenon poisoning and steam plant tricks to reduce the need to adjust reactor output.
1. It only looked at radiation released during "normal" operation. It didn't consider accidents at nuclear plants, which in reality account for nearly all the radiation they have released.
The reality was the concentrations of these compounds were in like 5 ppb (parts per billion), when checked on by DNR and others. Put into perspective it was like a football field, a mile high and one marble sitting in the end zone. Pretty mild
5PPB is "mild"?!
You're talking about compounds with an LD50 in the micrograms/kilogram.
Safe exposure is 4 picograms/kilogram/day
5 ppb in your drinking water would get you about 18 micrograms/day, or 60,000-ish times that.
What is the big deal about having to plug your phone in to charge it?
If you don't need a physical port for charging, you can seal the device completely to protect against dust/water and not need to put wear on the gaskets integrated into such cases to allow access to the ports.
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Either you work in a very very crowded area, or San Diego is seriously slacking in the Wireless department
And giving each WAP an average range of 100 feet to your phone
Downtown core in a city of 200k.
My number is probably inflated a bit given that my desk is ~80m off the ground and next to a window. According to opensignal's DB, some of the networks I'm detecting are 1000+ feet away.
Some napkin math, assuming he purchased the phone in July 2008 when 3G went on sale, and it's been in use constantly for the last 57 months ... and ball-parking 30 days/month ... he hit 40 Wi-Fi points and 36 cell towers every day.
Not that difficult. Just sitting at my desk, my Galaxy S3 picks up 36 Wi-Fi networks. I probably walk past that many again on my way to work. And a few dozen more any time I walk into an apartment building.
I consider it rather mystical how any Wi-Fi network is able to function at all with this amount of crowding in the channels.
"Fancy tank" is understating the issue. Hydrogen stored at 5000psi and used for an ICE will get you about 1/5th the range of the same volume of gasoline.
1. Correct.
2. No. Mining is basically processing and verifying transactions. You take a select a set of transactions from the ones you've received from the network (until a transaction has been included in a block, it hasn't really happened), along with the previous block's hash value and a nonce, and hash it. You keep increment the nonce or adding transactions or rearranging them until you or someone else gets a block where the hash value is less than the target value. The first person (or pool) to find such a block receives the block reward (aka the block subsidy), which is 25 (previously 50) newly created bitcoins and then the process starts again.
3. Some client might use that nomenclature, but the usual format is decimal, usually with SI prefixes (mBTC, uBTC, nBTC).
4. Bitcoins aren't really kept anywhere. You keep the private keys to the bitcoins in your wallet file. The public database is the blockchain, which can be though of like a massive accounting ledger. It contains all the transactions between all known bitcoin addresses.
5. Yes.
6. Yes.
It's "flout the law", not flaunt.
He'd already mentioned Rogers and Fido, which was the correct connection.
I'd never heard of Chatr before your post, probably because that brand isn't used in my province.
Every Telco store SMS messages temporarily. SMS is a store-and-forward system.
Yes. The greenhouse effect is a very good thing as far as complex life is concerned. Without it, the Earth would have a mean surface temperature of about -18C, compared to the actual one of about 14C.
Too much greenhouse effect is a problem however.
Bell and Telus aren't the same. Telus is what used to be Alberta Government Telephones and BC Tel. The former was privatized in 1991 and merged with the latter in 1998. It's an excellent example of why privatizing crowns is a bad idea.
Bell's other brand is Virgin and Telus has the brand Koodoo.
Until an idiot lawmaker in a rush to ban something writes a law that doesn't consider those cases and proceeds to obliterate those exemptions.
Sucks for passengers/carpoolers/sluglines/metro/bus riders.
So? Those don't exist in the USA.~
Sounds like BMW's HUD system.
http://www.bmw.com/com/en/newvehicles/3series/sedan/2011/showroom/safety/head_up_display.html?
Still is, technically. The communism control act (50 USC, Chapter 23, Subchapter IV), which outlawed the Communist Party of the United States, was never repealed or struck down, the latter because it was never actually enforced, and thus never went to court.
Benzene in the frac fluid? Nobody adds benzene to frac fluid.
Really? Then why is it listed as a constituent?
Opening your Haliburton link and picking North Dakota at random, the first constituent listed for "North Dakota Bakken Hybrid Formulation 1" is 1,2,4 Trimethylbenzene.
Not so great when you consider that our electricity here in Estonia comes mostly from oil shale which means there is no environmental advantage to electric vehicles.
Sure there is. One big plant is far more efficient than hundreds of little engines, even after accounting for transmission and charging losses. You also save quite a lot of energy by not having to crack/upgrade the shale into gasoline/diesel.
It's a movie quote. Specifically, Repo Man.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/quotes?qt=qt0280548
Sprint is saying Q2 for release and hasn't specified anything about pricing.
If you paid for a subsidized phone under a contract then no until that contract is over, then yes you should be able to.
Why? The contract is not a covenant to only use their service. It's an agreement to pay a monthly bill in exchange for some service (which you may or may not use).
If I want to travel outside the country and use a reasonably-priced local carrier rather than allowing my country's carrier to shove a parking cone labeled "insane roaming fees" up my ass, the carrier should be invited to go piss up a rope.
It should, perhaps, be noted that the nuke plants in subs are quite capable of ramping power output up/down very quickly.
Yes, because they're massively overbuilt and use much more highly enriched uranium allowing them to shrug off the xenon poisoning.
Citation provided. Page 7 has the varying standards for the USA, Canada, the EU, Japan, and the Nordic countries. 4pg is the different standards averaged.
Nuclear power can't stand alone, at least with current reactor designs, because their output can't be ramped up or down very quickly.
It is possible, but it makes things way more expensive and complex. The Bruce Nuclear Station manages it with booster/absorber rods to overcome xenon poisoning and steam plant tricks to reduce the need to adjust reactor output.
1. It only looked at radiation released during "normal" operation. It didn't consider accidents at nuclear plants, which in reality account for nearly all the radiation they have released.
It didn't consider accidents at coal plants either, so it may balance out.
The reality was the concentrations of these compounds were in like 5 ppb (parts per billion), when checked on by DNR and others. Put into perspective it was like a football field, a mile high and one marble sitting in the end zone. Pretty mild
5PPB is "mild"?!
You're talking about compounds with an LD50 in the micrograms/kilogram.
Safe exposure is 4 picograms/kilogram/day
5 ppb in your drinking water would get you about 18 micrograms/day, or 60,000-ish times that.
Or "I've got secret crap in my drinking water" sickness.
What is the big deal about having to plug your phone in to charge it?
If you don't need a physical port for charging, you can seal the device completely to protect against dust/water and not need to put wear on the gaskets integrated into such cases to allow access to the ports.