Sorry, but BART's railway gauge is not "exlusive to BART" or even "introduced by BART." Indian gauge is the second most common in the world after standard gauge.
India itself is converting most of its railways to use 5' 6" gauge that weren't already.
It's hardly "exlusive to BART" or even "introduced by BART" as the author claims.
Are these requests not for underserved, rural communities? They need help, and the NRTC, try as they may, might not be able to serve the telecommunications needs of these communities.
What about Mayer's golden parachute? Surely they can invalidate it so she doesn't walk away a lottery winner after all these years YHOO hasn't turned around.
For my money, RTL-SDR with an HF downconverter is a better bang for the buck, but less than 3 MHz of the spectrum is available at one time depending on the USB speed you choose (here's hoping for USB 3.0 RTL-SDR some day).
The Kiwi will do the entire 30 MHz if the screen shots on the Kickstarter site are correct, for 3x the price, or 4x the price if you want the $100 enclosure. Seriously, a $100 enclosure.
Ted Cruz doesn't realize that SDI never really went away. The entire thing has been operational for decades except for the so-called "space-based" laser and missile platforms.
Unfortunately, dm_crypt in Android is far simpler and more exploitable than what Apple has developed. The software/hardware model used by iOS is the gold standard in consumer device encryption. Android has a long, long way to go. It's kind of a shame.
As for Kindle Fire users, adding encryption is silly. It imposes higher CPU load, slower performance, and shorter battery life on a device that almost nobody saves personally identifiable information on. The sole exception is the Fire Phone, which virtually nobody wanted or used.
The technology that they are describing as the "secure enclave" does not exist on the iPhone used by the shooter, which is a software-only solution that relies on an ID number embedded in the CPU.
The water table is not used for human consumption anywhere in New York City's boroughs and most of its suburbs. The North River (Hudson), East River, the Harbor and ground wells have not been used for water consumption for over 120 years in the city and most nearby suburbs.
Every nuclear plant leaks Tritium, and it's harmless. This one just emits more. This water will never encounter a human in its entire half-life (or even double that time).
You are correct. Atari's "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial" was actually a decent adventure game. People who claim that "E.T." caused the "video game crash" have no idea what really happened and obviously never actually played "E.T." The same author wrote the even better game "Raiders of the Lost Ark" with a similar same kind of multi-segment structure and even more difficulty.
There was a glut of bad games from companies nobody ever hear of, like "Sunsoft," and the retailers lost so much money clearing them out.
Nintendo took steps to implement hard-line rules and license fees to avoid this and in doing so saved the industry.
One thing about the documentary that I find amusing was that their entire premise was false. They assumed that "E.T." destroyed Atari, and they assumed that the landfill story was a secret. The fact of the matter is that before the documentary was released the officials in Alamogordo said that all anyone had to do was ask. It was public knowledge and not an "urban legend."
Yes, but the point being, if given the choice between deploying fiber to the neighborhood, looped with RG-11 and dropped with RG-59 cable to the home is far cheaper in manpower and materials than using fiber.
Technically, this is already done affordably by the Cable TV industry. Fiber is run to the neighborhood loop, and the homes are served via coaxial cable and DOCSIS to 100 megabit.
I have Verizon FiOS and the cable that is run into my house is exactly the same as my old Cable TV service. The "FiOS" modem in my house is exactly the same modem given to me as a Cable TV subscriber.
My old Cable TV service has speeds competitive to FiOS up to around 100 megabits, but for less than 1/20th of the cost that Verizon spent building out the FiOS plant.
And, today, DOCSIS 3.1 will allow the same speeds as FiOS over the copper Cable TV plant. The old and already existing Cable TV plant gives customers the same speeds as FiOS for 1/20th the cost that Verizon paid for building FiOS.
This is why Verizon is not building FiOS anymore and sold off a few regions to other companies. They're only building out Washington DC because they were forced to. Verizon will not see dime one for 25 years. Fiber-to-the-home was a mistake and they admitted as much.
Ahem. I uploaded about 1 TB of files to Amazon Cloud Drive and it only took a few days. Not sure where you get the idea it takes "months transferring your files."
I tell people to use CrashPlan, instead. It is unlimited data and provides unbreakable encryption on the client side just like SpiderOak does. They also have a family plan so you can back up your whole house for one price.
I gave SpiderOak a try recently and I really wanted to like it but I had two serious problems with it. The client software uses an unreasonably large amount of memory and CPU time when the program is not doing anything, and what's worst, they don't provide an easy way to put it to sleep.
And, inexplicably, the SpiderOak company doesn't have a reasonable refund policy. Practically every other backup service has a trial period or a no-questions-asked refund policy. SpiderOak has neither.
I use Amazon Cloud Drive Unlimited Everything. The service is excellent but regular users are probably not going to like it because the client software is not very robust and lacks features.
If you use a third-party software application with Amazon Cloud Drive the service is quite fast and reliable. Rate-limiting is almost negligible and data transfer is very fast. I use the program Syncovery from here: https://www.syncovery.com/
They recently introduced a Linux version that works with Amazon Cloud Drive.
This is true, but the Amazon Cloud Drive Unlimited Everything plan (currently $60/year) really is actually unlimited data of any kind.
Nobody expects Amazon to maintain the "Unlimited Everything" plan for much longer.
But, on the bright side, while it is rate-limited, it's not as bad as Microsoft OneDrive's horrendously restrictive rate-limiting and slow data transfer.
Since Day 1 of the E-Ink Kindles, Amazon has been indignantly screwing the pooch on fonts. It is hard to understand why this is still the case. Bookerly is not a good font; there is no actual science behind the claims made in their marketing about it. There's just no good size to select, either.
At least they finally started allowing you to ignore the publisher-preferred font in recent years. Some books published that way were illegible and it's obvious that Amazon employees do not use their own products.
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Sorry, but BART's railway gauge is not "exlusive to BART" or even "introduced by BART." Indian gauge is the second most common in the world after standard gauge.
India itself is converting most of its railways to use 5' 6" gauge that weren't already.
It's hardly "exlusive to BART" or even "introduced by BART" as the author claims.
Fact check: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Are these requests not for underserved, rural communities? They need help, and the NRTC, try as they may, might not be able to serve the telecommunications needs of these communities.
What about Mayer's golden parachute? Surely they can invalidate it so she doesn't walk away a lottery winner after all these years YHOO hasn't turned around.
For my money, RTL-SDR with an HF downconverter is a better bang for the buck, but less than 3 MHz of the spectrum is available at one time depending on the USB speed you choose (here's hoping for USB 3.0 RTL-SDR some day).
The Kiwi will do the entire 30 MHz if the screen shots on the Kickstarter site are correct, for 3x the price, or 4x the price if you want the $100 enclosure. Seriously, a $100 enclosure.
Then there's this custom job that can monitor and record the entire 30 MHz spectrum at once:
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8...
The Pine64 has a nice collection of peripherals, too. I ordered the zWave adapter at a considerable savings when compared to a zWave base station.
Ted Cruz doesn't realize that SDI never really went away. The entire thing has been operational for decades except for the so-called "space-based" laser and missile platforms.
Unfortunately, dm_crypt in Android is far simpler and more exploitable than what Apple has developed. The software/hardware model used by iOS is the gold standard in consumer device encryption. Android has a long, long way to go. It's kind of a shame.
As for Kindle Fire users, adding encryption is silly. It imposes higher CPU load, slower performance, and shorter battery life on a device that almost nobody saves personally identifiable information on. The sole exception is the Fire Phone, which virtually nobody wanted or used.
The technology that they are describing as the "secure enclave" does not exist on the iPhone used by the shooter, which is a software-only solution that relies on an ID number embedded in the CPU.
This has nothing to do with the e-Ink reader. It's only for the Fire line.
No. The iPhone 5c, the phone in this dispute, doesn't have the "tamperproof chip." That's only in the current generation.
The iPhone 5c doesn't have the "tamperproof chip." That's only in the current generation.
The water table is not used for human consumption anywhere in New York City's boroughs and most of its suburbs. The North River (Hudson), East River, the Harbor and ground wells have not been used for water consumption for over 120 years in the city and most nearby suburbs.
Every nuclear plant leaks Tritium, and it's harmless. This one just emits more. This water will never encounter a human in its entire half-life (or even double that time).
This is yet another non-story.
While Pac-Man was horrible, the Ms. Pac-Man sequel cartridge was exceptionally good, and it was produced a very short time after Pac-Man was.
The book "Racing the Beam" by Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost is a great and detailed book about the technology exploited by ActiVision and some others.
David Crane's (ActiVision) line of iOS apps provides an animated tutorial on the concepts used to program the 2600.
The first step is to "create a kernel." You had to "race the beam" of the television. Every game was completely different. It is amazing.
You are correct. Atari's "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial" was actually a decent adventure game. People who claim that "E.T." caused the "video game crash" have no idea what really happened and obviously never actually played "E.T." The same author wrote the even better game "Raiders of the Lost Ark" with a similar same kind of multi-segment structure and even more difficulty.
There was a glut of bad games from companies nobody ever hear of, like "Sunsoft," and the retailers lost so much money clearing them out.
Nintendo took steps to implement hard-line rules and license fees to avoid this and in doing so saved the industry.
One thing about the documentary that I find amusing was that their entire premise was false. They assumed that "E.T." destroyed Atari, and they assumed that the landfill story was a secret. The fact of the matter is that before the documentary was released the officials in Alamogordo said that all anyone had to do was ask. It was public knowledge and not an "urban legend."
Ubuntu Studio keeps getting better. Especially now that more and more devices work with it.
http://ubuntustudio.org/
Did we really forget this rather high-profile death-by-GPS from 10 years ago? Come on, New York Times, really? This is Introduction to Journalism 101.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, but the point being, if given the choice between deploying fiber to the neighborhood, looped with RG-11 and dropped with RG-59 cable to the home is far cheaper in manpower and materials than using fiber.
Technically, this is already done affordably by the Cable TV industry. Fiber is run to the neighborhood loop, and the homes are served via coaxial cable and DOCSIS to 100 megabit.
I have Verizon FiOS and the cable that is run into my house is exactly the same as my old Cable TV service. The "FiOS" modem in my house is exactly the same modem given to me as a Cable TV subscriber.
My old Cable TV service has speeds competitive to FiOS up to around 100 megabits, but for less than 1/20th of the cost that Verizon spent building out the FiOS plant.
And, today, DOCSIS 3.1 will allow the same speeds as FiOS over the copper Cable TV plant. The old and already existing Cable TV plant gives customers the same speeds as FiOS for 1/20th the cost that Verizon paid for building FiOS.
This is why Verizon is not building FiOS anymore and sold off a few regions to other companies. They're only building out Washington DC because they were forced to. Verizon will not see dime one for 25 years. Fiber-to-the-home was a mistake and they admitted as much.
Ahem. I uploaded about 1 TB of files to Amazon Cloud Drive and it only took a few days. Not sure where you get the idea it takes "months transferring your files."
Try using the Syncovery application and see if that file size limitation still exists.
I tell people to use CrashPlan, instead. It is unlimited data and provides unbreakable encryption on the client side just like SpiderOak does. They also have a family plan so you can back up your whole house for one price.
I gave SpiderOak a try recently and I really wanted to like it but I had two serious problems with it. The client software uses an unreasonably large amount of memory and CPU time when the program is not doing anything, and what's worst, they don't provide an easy way to put it to sleep.
And, inexplicably, the SpiderOak company doesn't have a reasonable refund policy. Practically every other backup service has a trial period or a no-questions-asked refund policy. SpiderOak has neither.
I use Amazon Cloud Drive Unlimited Everything. The service is excellent but regular users are probably not going to like it because the client software is not very robust and lacks features.
If you use a third-party software application with Amazon Cloud Drive the service is quite fast and reliable. Rate-limiting is almost negligible and data transfer is very fast. I use the program Syncovery from here:
https://www.syncovery.com/
They recently introduced a Linux version that works with Amazon Cloud Drive.
This is true, but the Amazon Cloud Drive Unlimited Everything plan (currently $60/year) really is actually unlimited data of any kind.
Nobody expects Amazon to maintain the "Unlimited Everything" plan for much longer.
But, on the bright side, while it is rate-limited, it's not as bad as Microsoft OneDrive's horrendously restrictive rate-limiting and slow data transfer.
Since Day 1 of the E-Ink Kindles, Amazon has been indignantly screwing the pooch on fonts. It is hard to understand why this is still the case. Bookerly is not a good font; there is no actual science behind the claims made in their marketing about it. There's just no good size to select, either.
At least they finally started allowing you to ignore the publisher-preferred font in recent years. Some books published that way were illegible and it's obvious that Amazon employees do not use their own products.