My wife recently bought a VW Jetta. Very nice. 1.4 litre engine, DSG transmission. Very expensive to run and I think she now wishes she hadn't bought it. We did look at the civic hybrid and it would have saved us a lot of money in running costs.
And modern engines need no more than 30 seconds of idling to be "warmed up" for driving."
My 2007 Honda Civic may need 30 seconds for the engine to be ready to pull loads, but in 20 degree fahrenheit weather, it needs 12 minutes at least or I'll be driving around with fogged up glass. (Extremely dangerous).
Although I would like tips to reduce that somehow.
Glue a loop of nichrome wire to your glasses and run current through them.
I think we all know that if this thing operates at 4Mbps, it can't be pulsing at anywhere near the brain-fritzing frequency.
Consider that activity LEDs on older hubs were connected directly to the data lines and could be used to transmit data. These LEDs also pulsed visibly. These LEDs could certainly pulse at visible rates because the data starts and stops at those rates. Even if "down" is "on" a second or so of sustained load would make the lights dim. Obviously the drivers would work to avoid that.
Sorry about wrecking your joke. I just think that LEDs are both tempting and dangerous to pulse at certain rates. Lots of trucks are getting LED brake and indicator lights now. I noticed in Malaysia recently those lights are pulsing at 10Hz. Its the kind of thing which is going t bite us eventually.
I was thinking more about modulating the DC feed to the LEDs but as you point out the data and power circuits are going to have to come together at some point and I suppose the solutions to that problem are isolation and grounding. Once standards are developed for both it should go okay. Its possible to do it safely, even if the switches have to be on a fibre backbone, or some such.
From what I've read about this, while the LED lights are optical, the transmission line, aka the power line will still be used to carry data transmissions to and from the LED lights, I don't see how this or any other BPL tech being allowed by the FCC
How is that not a problem for (say) cat 5 cable? Maybe because it consists of twisted pairs? So twist the power cable, or shield it, or plug your cat 5 directly into the light fitting as the data input.
IRDA doesn't flicker in the visible spectrum, and thus fails to cause hilarious non-fatal seizures in coworkers, which, I'm assuming, is the whole point of this new technology.
The real problem there is (particularly bicycle) lighting systems which intentionally pulse at ~10 Hz. A lighting system which transmits data by inserting fast negative going pulses into LEDs is unlikely to cause problems.
Background: I ride a bike and I have epilepsy, but my EEG results suggest my condition is not photosensitive.
Better computer hygine like not taking media from lower security systems to higher security ones would have prevented the infection of the vulnerable machines but even the NSA has admitted that they do not have 100% control over such procedures.
There could be a business opportunity there. In order for your program to work I need to be in my office typing in all those dialogue messages as they are displayed. My rates are...
Most of the work do is maintenance. Finding bugs in 20 year old code. If I change two characters in one line on one day and close one bug, then thats a good day.
The left handed configuration is more balanced. Backspace, delete and enter are both on the right side of the keyboard. I can select an object with my left and and activate it with the enter key using my right hand.
I knew this guy who would hand in documents a centimetre thick, having worked all night on it, after the lecturer stated clearly that nothing over a few pages would be accepted.
I suppress titles on some window classes. NEdit has tabs and an information field to tell me which file has focus, so the title bar is redundant there. I might give your approach a go. It sounds interesting.
Okay here it is. I am in a bit of a rush I am sorry. You will have to fix a few things like putting in your own screen background. It has an fvwm script for monitoring nodes called "System Status". Generally Button1 is for starting things and Button2 is for configuration. It is set up to use ssh-askpass to set your ssh passphrase.
Got to go. My wife is insisting I sit down for christmas dinner.
So reading TFA this bit in the summary As a result, an answer with wide characters, such as 'w' or 'm,' may run over space even without reaching the stated word limit. seems wrong. The fields on screen are sized for lots of w and m characters but you only get about a thousand characters regardless of the width.
It would obviously be better if the form or whatever it is told you how far you had to go. Something like you have used 125/1024 characters.
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My wife recently bought a VW Jetta. Very nice. 1.4 litre engine, DSG transmission. Very expensive to run and I think she now wishes she hadn't bought it. We did look at the civic hybrid and it would have saved us a lot of money in running costs.
I wish we could have a separate article for people from very (hot|cold) climates to explain why this won't work for them.
Then we can discuss the technology.
My 2007 Honda Civic may need 30 seconds for the engine to be ready to pull loads, but in 20 degree fahrenheit weather, it needs 12 minutes at least or I'll be driving around with fogged up glass. (Extremely dangerous).
Although I would like tips to reduce that somehow.
Glue a loop of nichrome wire to your glasses and run current through them.
I think we all know that if this thing operates at 4Mbps, it can't be pulsing at anywhere near the brain-fritzing frequency.
Consider that activity LEDs on older hubs were connected directly to the data lines and could be used to transmit data. These LEDs also pulsed visibly. These LEDs could certainly pulse at visible rates because the data starts and stops at those rates. Even if "down" is "on" a second or so of sustained load would make the lights dim. Obviously the drivers would work to avoid that.
Sorry about wrecking your joke. I just think that LEDs are both tempting and dangerous to pulse at certain rates. Lots of trucks are getting LED brake and indicator lights now. I noticed in Malaysia recently those lights are pulsing at 10Hz. Its the kind of thing which is going t bite us eventually.
Linux really IS communist!
Already there are communal hallways and television sets.
Stop this sinister sharing before we get communal toothbrushes!
Not much chance of anybody's girlfriend suggesting that.
I was thinking more about modulating the DC feed to the LEDs but as you point out the data and power circuits are going to have to come together at some point and I suppose the solutions to that problem are isolation and grounding. Once standards are developed for both it should go okay. Its possible to do it safely, even if the switches have to be on a fibre backbone, or some such.
hahahaha quite. why do people still buy a cheap $40 product when they could buy a small business solution for 4x as much that will last them forever?
The small business solution may not do the job anyway. The cheap router will do the job for a while at negligible cost.
From what I've read about this, while the LED lights are optical, the transmission line, aka the power line will still be used to carry data transmissions to and from the LED lights, I don't see how this or any other BPL tech being allowed by the FCC
How is that not a problem for (say) cat 5 cable? Maybe because it consists of twisted pairs? So twist the power cable, or shield it, or plug your cat 5 directly into the light fitting as the data input.
IRDA doesn't flicker in the visible spectrum, and thus fails to cause hilarious non-fatal seizures in coworkers, which, I'm assuming, is the whole point of this new technology.
The real problem there is (particularly bicycle) lighting systems which intentionally pulse at ~10 Hz. A lighting system which transmits data by inserting fast negative going pulses into LEDs is unlikely to cause problems.
Background: I ride a bike and I have epilepsy, but my EEG results suggest my condition is not photosensitive.
one phone for the girlfriend, one for the wife, one for the other girlfriend...
You have been learning, Tiger.
Better computer hygine like not taking media from lower security systems to higher security ones would have prevented the infection of the vulnerable machines but even the NSA has admitted that they do not have 100% control over such procedures.
No kidding
And finally... Why the heck are our friends at Siemens selling systems to the Iranians?
Siemens are German. Many European countries sell technology to Iran.
Thats a good point. My sister has 400 facebook friends. I don't know how she keeps up with them all.
11. Stimulating US domestic demand for weapons. If you don't use your missiles, etc, you can't buy votes from defence industry workers.
The challenge is finding the bugs
There could be a business opportunity there. In order for your program to work I need to be in my office typing in all those dialogue messages as they are displayed. My rates are...
Most of the work do is maintenance. Finding bugs in 20 year old code. If I change two characters in one line on one day and close one bug, then thats a good day.
How about an oil leak.
I also like to have the window titles displayed in the background menu, eg. something like
DestroyFunc invokeRootMenu
AddToFunc invokeRootMenu
+ I DestroyMenu recreate RootMenu
+ I AddToMenu RootMenu "r00tMenu [Desk $[desk.n]]" Title
+ I AddToMenu RootMenu "New" Function NewTerm
+ I All (Iconic,CurrentScreen) AddToMenu RootMenu ($[w.name])\ [$[w.desk]] WindowId $[w.id] SelectWindow
+ I All (!Iconic,CurrentScreen) AddToMenu RootMenu $[w.name]\ [$[w.desk]] WindowId $[w.id] SelectWindow
+ I AddToMenu RootMenu "" Nop
+ I AddToMenu RootMenu "Restart" Restart fvwm2
+ I AddToMenu RootMenu "Quit" Quit
+ I Popup RootMenu
Mouse 1 R A WindowList
The left handed configuration is more balanced. Backspace, delete and enter are both on the right side of the keyboard. I can select an object with my left and and activate it with the enter key using my right hand.
it's a way to force you to be concise.
I knew this guy who would hand in documents a centimetre thick, having worked all night on it, after the lecturer stated clearly that nothing over a few pages would be accepted.
using a Dvorak keyboard layout at work (keycaps still in qwerty).
:)
I suppress titles on some window classes. NEdit has tabs and an information field to tell me which file has focus, so the title bar is redundant there. I might give your approach a go. It sounds interesting.
Okay here it is. I am in a bit of a rush I am sorry. You will have to fix a few things like putting in your own screen background. It has an fvwm script for monitoring nodes called "System Status". Generally Button1 is for starting things and Button2 is for configuration. It is set up to use ssh-askpass to set your ssh passphrase.
Got to go. My wife is insisting I sit down for christmas dinner.
they have something closer to 1,000 characters
So reading TFA this bit in the summary As a result, an answer with wide characters, such as 'w' or 'm,' may run over space even without reaching the stated word limit. seems wrong. The fields on screen are sized for lots of w and m characters but you only get about a thousand characters regardless of the width.
It would obviously be better if the form or whatever it is told you how far you had to go. Something like you have used 125/1024 characters.