I'm a car geek and also into technology and computers. I have arguments with my "mechanically inclined" friend about carbs vs efi all the time. If you understand integrated devices and can plug in a multimeter, it's actually easier to work with computers. I can diagnose a fueling problem on my VW by plugging in my laptop and getting statistics.
1 - Car is running like crap, bogs when driving 2 - Plug in computer and get code (let's say the Coolant Temp sensor is malfunctioning) 3 - Plug in multimeter into said sensor and get voltage 4 - If the voltage is not between x and y, replace the sensor. 5 - If all else fails, replace the ECU for a total of $50 at a junkyard
How is this so difficult? Technology makes cars easier to work on, it's just that tech hipsters don't want to get dirty and car-geeks don't want to use that new fangled computer stuff.
Normally, I'd be pretty upset unless you could easily distinguish the ads. It's really deceptive to your users to try and make an advertisement look like legitimate content, yet everybody does it anyway.
Anyhow, this is Twitter, and I don't care. Twitter being deceptive? Quick, call a scientist because I've discovered that water is wet and the Earth is round!
I have some optical media that's from ~2001. Most of it's just fine, even after a tortured life. I trust high quality optical media more than anything else.
CDs are rarely an all-or-nothing affair. Even if you do lose data, you tend to not lose it all in one freak accident, not to mention solid state and magnetic media make fantastic paperweights after a solar storm.
Step 1 - Order a DS3 in a metro area (roughly $2k-3k)
Step 2 - Go buy some cheap equipment and antennas ($100-1000 for a AP, ~$150-200 for each CPE)
Step 3 (optional) - Get an FCC license for some licensed spectrum if you're not using 900mhz/2.4/5Ghz. It's actually pretty inexpensive, maybe a a few hundred dollars at most and that's it.
Step 4 - Rent tower space, depending on the area it could run $500-$10000. I'll guesstimate for a few antennas, probably $2000
This is all assuming you're a typical/. reader and build your own routers, run open-source software and can build enclosures and don't have a fear of heights.
Why not just do like the Woz bring a ceramic knife? I see a lot of possibilities where someone could bring a deadly weapon onboard an aircraft undetected -- not to mention the social engineering factor and even assuming *perfect* security there's always the human element.
Travel outside the solar system is far from impossible, and solutions were engineered with 1970's era technology. If only we had some sort of fantastic energy that could be derived from tiny bits of matter that could propel a giant rocket across the cosmos!
Pilots are a minimal expense for the airline. The cost to fill the gas tank on a jet is probably more than his yearly salary.
There will always be a pilot, even if the airplane flies itself (as they do now mostly). If anything, it's a PR expense, because people would never trust full autopilot.
The whole point of a netbook was to use inexpensive and low power commodity hardware.
The dual-core Atom is nice, but I hope they don't lose focus on building low-power, high efficiency processors. It looks like ARM is leading the way in that respect.
How can you honestly compare them to Microsoft? Maybe I've lost my "sanity", but Apple reserves every moral and legal right to do what they want with their platform. This isn't stopping you from using a generic Win7 tablet where you can have your "freedom" and code in VB all day long.
Hey, on a related note, I'm going to start trolling because they don't let me install my own apps on my refrigerator./sarcasm
Just because it doesn't fit your Stallman-esque future of computing doesn't mean that it isn't going to happen. People just want stuff it to work. Your average non-technical computer user isn't stupid for wanting this! In-fact, I think they're smarter in a zen-like "I don't want to mess with this stuff -- I have work to do" sort of way.
Technology should adapt to us, not the other way around.
I think we vastly overestimate how important we are.
An alien race isn't going to travel light-years to have a cup of tea any more than we would travel to a remote corner of the earth to make peace with the native bacteria.
I'll have a go at this one. I'm a pilot and I see this regularly in the US with general aviation pilots. It's statistically safer than driving because we're taught how to deal with calculated risks and weigh the consequences. This is why aviation is so safe, the best way to avoid a dangerous situation is to avoid it in the first place.
I once asked my dad, a former martial arts teacher "How do I dodge a bullet". His reply? "Don't get into the situation in the first place".
Anything sufficiently different to be radical (in either a good or bad way) won't be considered a netbook.
I think everyone misses the point of a netbook (or the original purpose before it became mainstream). A netbook is supposed to be inexpensive, power efficient and portable.
You can't make an expensive netbook with a lot of features and a bigger screen, it just becomes another laptop.
I've always thought that "Real AI" wasn't something we could design, but would need to evolve to the point of intelligence. We already know it works, it's just a matter of application.
What if this was allowed to span not 50, but 50,000 or 50,000,000 generations? Now imagine all the time it took us to evolve in that capacity and do it in the span of a few minutes.
I think the ability to have AI is already solved by today's hardware; we just need the right kind of software.
I'll be honest, I own an iPhone so I'm a bit biased here, but this Japanese P905-whatever may have every feature under the sun, but it doesn't change the fact that it looks clumsy and (I'm assuming), like all Japanese phones it has a buggy non-intuitive mess of an OS.
Sure, I wish my iPhone had A2DP/HDTV/Satellite Whatever, but sometimes I just want to get things done without being flashed by a bunch of LEDs
Obviously, isps aren't going to lay down and die. They'll simply throttle the offending users and throttle udp for residential customers. The problem with this is that legitimate applications like voip will be blocked or throttled with the excuse of "fighting the thieving pirates". I hate packet tampering as much as anyone else here, but without qos rules everyone loses.
First, do we even know that global warming is happening, and even if it is a threat itself...and
even then, wouldnt creating this "halo" be interfering with earth's natural process, as global warming itself is one?
People complain that we lost 1000+ American soldiers in iraq. What shocks me, is that our soldiers death is valued more than 100,000 people's lives. In a week, most Americans would have forgotten about this.
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I'm a car geek and also into technology and computers. I have arguments with my "mechanically inclined" friend about carbs vs efi all the time. If you understand integrated devices and can plug in a multimeter, it's actually easier to work with computers. I can diagnose a fueling problem on my VW by plugging in my laptop and getting statistics.
1 - Car is running like crap, bogs when driving
2 - Plug in computer and get code (let's say the Coolant Temp sensor is malfunctioning)
3 - Plug in multimeter into said sensor and get voltage
4 - If the voltage is not between x and y, replace the sensor.
5 - If all else fails, replace the ECU for a total of $50 at a junkyard
How is this so difficult? Technology makes cars easier to work on, it's just that tech hipsters don't want to get dirty and car-geeks don't want to use that new fangled computer stuff.
Normally, I'd be pretty upset unless you could easily distinguish the ads. It's really deceptive to your users to try and make an advertisement look like legitimate content, yet everybody does it anyway.
Anyhow, this is Twitter, and I don't care. Twitter being deceptive? Quick, call a scientist because I've discovered that water is wet and the Earth is round!
I have some optical media that's from ~2001. Most of it's just fine, even after a tortured life. I trust high quality optical media more than anything else.
CDs are rarely an all-or-nothing affair. Even if you do lose data, you tend to not lose it all in one freak accident, not to mention solid state and magnetic media make fantastic paperweights after a solar storm.
Step 1 - Order a DS3 in a metro area (roughly $2k-3k)
/. reader and build your own routers, run open-source software and can build enclosures and don't have
Step 2 - Go buy some cheap equipment and antennas ($100-1000 for a AP, ~$150-200 for each CPE)
Step 3 (optional) - Get an FCC license for some licensed spectrum if you're not using 900mhz/2.4/5Ghz. It's actually pretty inexpensive, maybe a a few hundred
dollars at most and that's it.
Step 4 - Rent tower space, depending on the area it could run $500-$10000. I'll guesstimate for a few antennas, probably $2000
This is all assuming you're a typical
a fear of heights.
Why not just do like the Woz bring a ceramic knife? I see a lot of possibilities where someone could bring a deadly weapon
onboard an aircraft undetected -- not to mention the social engineering factor and even assuming *perfect* security there's always the human element.
Travel outside the solar system is far from impossible, and solutions were engineered with 1970's era technology. If only we had some sort of fantastic energy that could be derived
from tiny bits of matter that could propel a giant rocket across the cosmos!
Pilots are a minimal expense for the airline. The cost to fill the gas tank on a jet is probably more than his yearly salary.
There will always be a pilot, even if the airplane flies itself (as they do now mostly). If anything, it's a PR expense, because people would never trust full autopilot.
Apple tends to take standards that are in their infancy, and make them mainstream.
I don't see anything wrong with this, other than it making other browsers like FF3 look like they haven't been innovating.
The whole point of a netbook was to use inexpensive and low power commodity hardware.
The dual-core Atom is nice, but I hope they don't lose focus on building low-power, high efficiency processors. It looks like ARM is leading the way in that respect.
How can you honestly compare them to Microsoft? Maybe I've lost my "sanity", but Apple reserves every moral and legal right to do what they want with their platform. This isn't stopping you from using a generic Win7 tablet where you can have your "freedom" and code in VB all day long.
/sarcasm
Hey, on a related note, I'm going to start trolling because they don't let me install my own apps on my refrigerator.
Just because it doesn't fit your Stallman-esque future of computing doesn't mean that it isn't going to happen. People just want stuff it to work. Your average non-technical computer user isn't stupid for wanting this! In-fact, I think they're smarter in a zen-like "I don't want to mess with this stuff -- I have work to do" sort of way.
Technology should adapt to us, not the other way around.
I think we vastly overestimate how important we are.
An alien race isn't going to travel light-years to have a cup of tea any more than we would travel to a remote corner of the earth to make peace with the native bacteria.
I'll have a go at this one. I'm a pilot and I see this regularly in the US with general aviation pilots. It's statistically safer than driving because we're taught how to deal with calculated risks and weigh the consequences. This is why aviation is so safe, the best way to avoid a dangerous situation is to avoid it in the first place.
I once asked my dad, a former martial arts teacher "How do I dodge a bullet". His reply? "Don't get into the situation in the first place".
Anything sufficiently different to be radical (in either a good or bad way) won't be considered a netbook.
I think everyone misses the point of a netbook (or the original purpose before it became mainstream). A netbook is supposed to be inexpensive, power efficient and portable.
You can't make an expensive netbook with a lot of features and a bigger screen, it just becomes another laptop.
I've always thought that "Real AI" wasn't something we could design, but would need to evolve to the point of intelligence. We already know it works, it's just a matter of application.
What if this was allowed to span not 50, but 50,000 or 50,000,000 generations?
Now imagine all the time it took us to evolve in that capacity and do it in the span of a few minutes.
I think the ability to have AI is already solved by today's hardware; we just need the right kind of software.
You mean like Cable TV? We'll get usage charges AND tons of advertising.
I'll be honest, I own an iPhone so I'm a bit biased here, but this Japanese P905-whatever may have every feature under the sun, but it doesn't change the fact that it looks clumsy and (I'm assuming), like all Japanese phones it has a buggy non-intuitive mess of an OS.
Sure, I wish my iPhone had A2DP/HDTV/Satellite Whatever, but sometimes I just want to
get things done without being flashed by a bunch of LEDs
Obviously, isps aren't going to lay down and die. They'll simply throttle the offending users and throttle udp for residential customers. The problem with this is that legitimate applications like voip will be blocked or throttled with the excuse of "fighting the thieving pirates". I hate packet tampering as much as anyone else here, but without qos rules everyone loses.
This takedown is essentially trying to lock out 3rd party media players (Winamp, Amarok, etc) under the guise of content protection.
Dupes have been eliminated thanks to new and amazing patented Slashdot story recycling capabilities.
quite a few more sites are gonna be shut down as well
1- bribe Slashdot editor to post dupe 2- re-post old comments 3- ???? 5- Profit!
First, do we even know that global warming is happening, and even if it is a threat itself...and even then, wouldnt creating this "halo" be interfering with earth's natural process, as global warming itself is one?
I prefer my explorer in 2D, and really dont have any need for planet-viewing....
i think you might want to take a look at tape drives
People complain that we lost 1000+ American soldiers in iraq. What shocks me, is that our soldiers death is valued more than 100,000 people's lives. In a week, most Americans would have forgotten about this.