Try typing an average of 180 characters per minute on a tablet and then repeat what you just said. Then try it 10 hours without a charge and see if you can still use that tablet to post your reply here.
I despise Nvidia for not opening up their drivers, but I still use them on Linux and Windows. Why? Because their drivers don't crash my box half as often as the ATi drivers do if I use them the way I want to, or ATi simply doesn't do what I want. In the end, I much prefer open source, but I'll use whatever gets me the best results for my application. My computers are first and foremost tools, not political advocacy devices.
Blaming the lack of success for ATi on Linux desktops on the fact that they went open source simply doesn't hold. They were behind before they went open source and even tho they improved greatly, they are still significantly behind Nvidia when it comes to Linux drivers.
If the father would be able to build a convincing case she abused her restraining order, it would be retracted and she'd be declared unfit to be a parent. Way to go mom...
First of all, if it's a plugin that causes it, why has that happened for at least the last 3 years and nobody found the plugin that did it and blacklisted it? Second of all, why should that plugin, or other cause of leak crash all my tabs? Chrome crashes only the tab of the offending page/bug.
Replication is easy, windows XP or higher, any firefox that is currently actively developed on and a recent flash plugin. Open about 100 tabs of various sites, taking care to make these a representation of the (type of) sites the average user visits and start browsing in them. I can guarantee you that you'll have a bigger than 1.5GB browser that will crash in less than a few hours.
Sure, you can blame flash like Apple did, but not being able to fix it for 3 consecutive years? There was a period when the development version of FF would simply dump page history once you browsed away from a page. That made it several times better and faster by itself. Unfortunately, they either took that out, or the leaks have gone so bad that even dumping page history from memory doesn't help anymore.
They won't be running all car computer systems on this, only the display/console bit. Brakes, engine, climate and all those computers will still be the same, connected via CAN buses and all that.
The worrisome bit is that car manufacturers are once again getting away with proprietary hardware hookups, so it's hard to replace your "car stereo" or "navigation device" once it becomes obsolete. There was a time where you could just get a DIN or double DIN car stereo and put it in your car, regardless of what brand car or what brand stereo you'd like to get. It seems those days are over and we'll once again be forced to use overpriced proprietary devices that age much quicker than the vehicle.
Because there is too much black ops, secrecy and higher value contracts at stake. Why risk any of that, for the mere few millions this guy billed wrongly? The amount of money going on in the USA government budget that everyone wants a share of and voters get no insight on is so much more than this, it's not worth risking their share of it.
What would really help is making the USA government transparent and politicians accountable for all the money spent. Roughly half of the USA tax money is going to black ops, defense projects and other defensive/offensive more or less classified projects. It shouldn't need to be more than 5% that's actually secret, but for some reason, the politicians have a benefit in keeping this budget way higher than practically any other country that claims to be a "western democratic country". To explain what that reason may be, is left as an exercise to the reader.
It will break before you outgrow it. That's what the statistics predict anyway. HDDs tend to have a much longer MTBF than SSDs, so you may want to take extra care of those backups.
SSDs MLC technology needs bigger die sizes to remain reliable, or smaller die sizes to remain cheap. Pricing of SSD won't come down that fast, until they come up with affordable new technologies for storing data that are not SLC/MLC flash. There are several technologies that are almost ready for production, but it will be a while before they have proven themselves in the field and have significant market penetration.
It doesn't matter how cheap those CRTs were, with color calibration they would have given you a better color representation than the TFTs you used to replace them. That is unless you bought some IPS panel TFTs, but I doubt you'd pick those up cheap on cyber monday. I don't use them a lot, but I still have the broadcast quality proofing CRTs gifted to me a while back for the true color work.
People are quite outraged since this turns out to be default, even for not customers of the bank in question, but this is how a Dutch bank solved this: If you change provider, SIM card or phone number, you can't use your phone for tokens for at least 48 hours. All telco companies send *all* their changes to that bank, so they can compare it against their records of customers phone numbers. It's a gross invasion of privacy, but it does work against this form of weakness in this form of 2 factor authentication.
You could of course check your credit card bill online and pay it on time, like you mentioned yourself. I don't hear people complaining about the lack of jobs in the wooden-wheel-making-market, or the horse-and-carriage driver business lately. Maybe quick mail isn't that what it's used to be and a few niche players will fetch more money for the few letters that still need fast delivery. The rest of the dead tree spam doesn't need to be anywhere in a hurry, so why bother?
They won't get closer than a rogue triangulation between cell towers to pinpoint your location. Enough to make you more suspect in a criminal case, but not enough to find you without expensive tracking equipment on site, a lot of time from the tracking people and still quite some luck (if you are moving). Compare that to the list of things the police usually won't put any effort in for if reported, and you'll know why this doesn't happen.
because both the SIM and IMEI of the phone itself get logged. If the police or a secret service of some sort later starts looking for you, they will search for either one. Also, phone taps are usually issued on the person and all their known IMEI, SIM and landline calls. This means that in case of a tap, you'll want a phone that can't be associated to you in any way.
I'd like to see the figures in your business case on this. DC-DC conversion of anything commercial that holds just a little power (over 1 Ampere) still uses DC-AC-transformer-AC-DC as a path. The trick is that the new transformers are a lot smaller because of the IGBTs switching to a much higher AC frequency.
Now tell me, where can I get IGBTs that can switch 132 kV at thousands of Amperes, transformers that will efficiently convert these voltages, and capacitors that will reliably smoothen out the rectified high frequency voltages so it's true DC again? How much will they cost? How much more efficient will your installation be? If you have the answers to this, you could be the great leader of the next big company, just like Ford, Gates and Jobs, to name a few.
There is no problem that can not be fixed with an adequate amount of high explosives. If you still have the problem after you've applied and detonated explosives, you simply weren't using enough of them.
It can't pick up these waves, because the human ear picks up sound, not magnetic waves.
There are some bones in your sinuses that are magnetoceptic, but studies have yet to get detailed. It's such a rudimentary sense that you are barely able to pick up the magnetic north with it, so it's highly questionable that you'd be able to pick up rapidly alternating differences in magnetic fields.
It is however proven that these magnetoceptic bones are a real human sense. So yes, there's at least a sixth sense there. Oh, for that matter, totally off topic, your balance sense (inner ear) also counts, so make that a seventh, or an eighth, if you count the receptors for pheromones in your nasal cavity as well (debatable, since it's a form of smell, just not consciously perceived).
Hey, Kinect is nice to have third party users for, but this new Kinect2, with it's proprietary USB3-plug-with-added-data-line-just-to-make-it-hard-to-use-it-on-other-systems is why you really have to buy the XboX720 (or whatever they call the next soldering joint horror dedicated game box they bring out). Just because you jumped back on the wagon you accidentally lost control of, doesn't mean you can't build yourself a new, better wagon? If there's more money to be made with a proprietary Kinect2, MS will not hesitate to make it proprietary again. That doesn't mean they will make it proprietary again. It means they will analyze the marketing potential of both options and do whatever they think makes the most money.
You are forgetting cab fair from and to the airports. That's four cab rides, more than double the amount you're spending on the plane ticket. Also, what makes you think that air fare will will still be that cheap in the years to come?
You know, cabs exist as well. You don't absolutely need your own car. Also, a rental will work just fine for people spending more than a business day visiting just one or a few customers. You'd still save time, money and environment by using this train, as opposed to driving up there yourself. By your logic, the airport would be just as useless as a train station.
The first continental railway wasn't going 300 miles per hour. Basically, anywhere they could put tracks at an inclination that was feasible for the locomotives to haul carriages over, was good enough. Now try making tracks that won't bump a train off at 300 mp/h. You need a lot more precision for that. That's why it will take longer to build. Sure, you can accelerate that by adding more monkeys to the equation, but the amount of extra money that would take, would make the project even more expensive. You can't just hire anyone to lay tracks for this kind of thing, so "cheap foreign labor" used for the first continental isn't going to solve this. In fact, you'll be needing expensive foreign labor for it as it is now, because if you were to use only US nationals, you wouldn't have enough qualified people to do it in the 20 years that are planned for it as it is.
Faraday has a perfect solution for this problem. Maybe the power company won't like it, but hey, if they have a problem with it, they should ask the FCC for a frequency range of their own.
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Try typing an average of 180 characters per minute on a tablet and then repeat what you just said. Then try it 10 hours without a charge and see if you can still use that tablet to post your reply here.
That the FCC actually gave somebody money?
I despise Nvidia for not opening up their drivers, but I still use them on Linux and Windows. Why? Because their drivers don't crash my box half as often as the ATi drivers do if I use them the way I want to, or ATi simply doesn't do what I want. In the end, I much prefer open source, but I'll use whatever gets me the best results for my application. My computers are first and foremost tools, not political advocacy devices.
Blaming the lack of success for ATi on Linux desktops on the fact that they went open source simply doesn't hold. They were behind before they went open source and even tho they improved greatly, they are still significantly behind Nvidia when it comes to Linux drivers.
If the father would be able to build a convincing case she abused her restraining order, it would be retracted and she'd be declared unfit to be a parent. Way to go mom...
First of all, if it's a plugin that causes it, why has that happened for at least the last 3 years and nobody found the plugin that did it and blacklisted it? Second of all, why should that plugin, or other cause of leak crash all my tabs? Chrome crashes only the tab of the offending page/bug.
Replication is easy, windows XP or higher, any firefox that is currently actively developed on and a recent flash plugin. Open about 100 tabs of various sites, taking care to make these a representation of the (type of) sites the average user visits and start browsing in them. I can guarantee you that you'll have a bigger than 1.5GB browser that will crash in less than a few hours.
Sure, you can blame flash like Apple did, but not being able to fix it for 3 consecutive years? There was a period when the development version of FF would simply dump page history once you browsed away from a page. That made it several times better and faster by itself. Unfortunately, they either took that out, or the leaks have gone so bad that even dumping page history from memory doesn't help anymore.
I don't see any protesters there. It must be the happiest place on the planet.
That this hasn't already happened? They just have found neurological proof how it works, that is all.
They won't be running all car computer systems on this, only the display/console bit. Brakes, engine, climate and all those computers will still be the same, connected via CAN buses and all that.
The worrisome bit is that car manufacturers are once again getting away with proprietary hardware hookups, so it's hard to replace your "car stereo" or "navigation device" once it becomes obsolete. There was a time where you could just get a DIN or double DIN car stereo and put it in your car, regardless of what brand car or what brand stereo you'd like to get. It seems those days are over and we'll once again be forced to use overpriced proprietary devices that age much quicker than the vehicle.
Because there is too much black ops, secrecy and higher value contracts at stake. Why risk any of that, for the mere few millions this guy billed wrongly? The amount of money going on in the USA government budget that everyone wants a share of and voters get no insight on is so much more than this, it's not worth risking their share of it.
What would really help is making the USA government transparent and politicians accountable for all the money spent. Roughly half of the USA tax money is going to black ops, defense projects and other defensive/offensive more or less classified projects. It shouldn't need to be more than 5% that's actually secret, but for some reason, the politicians have a benefit in keeping this budget way higher than practically any other country that claims to be a "western democratic country". To explain what that reason may be, is left as an exercise to the reader.
It will break before you outgrow it. That's what the statistics predict anyway. HDDs tend to have a much longer MTBF than SSDs, so you may want to take extra care of those backups.
SSDs MLC technology needs bigger die sizes to remain reliable, or smaller die sizes to remain cheap. Pricing of SSD won't come down that fast, until they come up with affordable new technologies for storing data that are not SLC/MLC flash. There are several technologies that are almost ready for production, but it will be a while before they have proven themselves in the field and have significant market penetration.
It doesn't matter how cheap those CRTs were, with color calibration they would have given you a better color representation than the TFTs you used to replace them. That is unless you bought some IPS panel TFTs, but I doubt you'd pick those up cheap on cyber monday. I don't use them a lot, but I still have the broadcast quality proofing CRTs gifted to me a while back for the true color work.
People are quite outraged since this turns out to be default, even for not customers of the bank in question, but this is how a Dutch bank solved this: If you change provider, SIM card or phone number, you can't use your phone for tokens for at least 48 hours. All telco companies send *all* their changes to that bank, so they can compare it against their records of customers phone numbers. It's a gross invasion of privacy, but it does work against this form of weakness in this form of 2 factor authentication.
You could of course check your credit card bill online and pay it on time, like you mentioned yourself. I don't hear people complaining about the lack of jobs in the wooden-wheel-making-market, or the horse-and-carriage driver business lately. Maybe quick mail isn't that what it's used to be and a few niche players will fetch more money for the few letters that still need fast delivery. The rest of the dead tree spam doesn't need to be anywhere in a hurry, so why bother?
They won't get closer than a rogue triangulation between cell towers to pinpoint your location. Enough to make you more suspect in a criminal case, but not enough to find you without expensive tracking equipment on site, a lot of time from the tracking people and still quite some luck (if you are moving). Compare that to the list of things the police usually won't put any effort in for if reported, and you'll know why this doesn't happen.
because both the SIM and IMEI of the phone itself get logged. If the police or a secret service of some sort later starts looking for you, they will search for either one. Also, phone taps are usually issued on the person and all their known IMEI, SIM and landline calls. This means that in case of a tap, you'll want a phone that can't be associated to you in any way.
I'd like to see the figures in your business case on this. DC-DC conversion of anything commercial that holds just a little power (over 1 Ampere) still uses DC-AC-transformer-AC-DC as a path. The trick is that the new transformers are a lot smaller because of the IGBTs switching to a much higher AC frequency.
Now tell me, where can I get IGBTs that can switch 132 kV at thousands of Amperes, transformers that will efficiently convert these voltages, and capacitors that will reliably smoothen out the rectified high frequency voltages so it's true DC again? How much will they cost? How much more efficient will your installation be? If you have the answers to this, you could be the great leader of the next big company, just like Ford, Gates and Jobs, to name a few.
There is no problem that can not be fixed with an adequate amount of high explosives. If you still have the problem after you've applied and detonated explosives, you simply weren't using enough of them.
and then records a new movie called "The Mosquito". Guess what happens when his girlfriend finds out she's pregnant in the script.
It can't pick up these waves, because the human ear picks up sound, not magnetic waves. There are some bones in your sinuses that are magnetoceptic, but studies have yet to get detailed. It's such a rudimentary sense that you are barely able to pick up the magnetic north with it, so it's highly questionable that you'd be able to pick up rapidly alternating differences in magnetic fields.
It is however proven that these magnetoceptic bones are a real human sense. So yes, there's at least a sixth sense there. Oh, for that matter, totally off topic, your balance sense (inner ear) also counts, so make that a seventh, or an eighth, if you count the receptors for pheromones in your nasal cavity as well (debatable, since it's a form of smell, just not consciously perceived).
Hey, Kinect is nice to have third party users for, but this new Kinect2, with it's proprietary USB3-plug-with-added-data-line-just-to-make-it-hard-to-use-it-on-other-systems is why you really have to buy the XboX720 (or whatever they call the next soldering joint horror dedicated game box they bring out). Just because you jumped back on the wagon you accidentally lost control of, doesn't mean you can't build yourself a new, better wagon? If there's more money to be made with a proprietary Kinect2, MS will not hesitate to make it proprietary again. That doesn't mean they will make it proprietary again. It means they will analyze the marketing potential of both options and do whatever they think makes the most money.
I wonder how much of the equipment will be broken and out of support before the opening ceremony.
You are forgetting cab fair from and to the airports. That's four cab rides, more than double the amount you're spending on the plane ticket. Also, what makes you think that air fare will will still be that cheap in the years to come?
You know, cabs exist as well. You don't absolutely need your own car. Also, a rental will work just fine for people spending more than a business day visiting just one or a few customers. You'd still save time, money and environment by using this train, as opposed to driving up there yourself. By your logic, the airport would be just as useless as a train station.
The first continental railway wasn't going 300 miles per hour. Basically, anywhere they could put tracks at an inclination that was feasible for the locomotives to haul carriages over, was good enough. Now try making tracks that won't bump a train off at 300 mp/h. You need a lot more precision for that. That's why it will take longer to build. Sure, you can accelerate that by adding more monkeys to the equation, but the amount of extra money that would take, would make the project even more expensive. You can't just hire anyone to lay tracks for this kind of thing, so "cheap foreign labor" used for the first continental isn't going to solve this. In fact, you'll be needing expensive foreign labor for it as it is now, because if you were to use only US nationals, you wouldn't have enough qualified people to do it in the 20 years that are planned for it as it is.
Faraday has a perfect solution for this problem. Maybe the power company won't like it, but hey, if they have a problem with it, they should ask the FCC for a frequency range of their own.