All I can suggest is, as a kid my Dad bought me something like "101 electronic experiments" from radio shack circa early 80's (a quick google and I can't find anything, perhaps I have the name wrong?) It was a wooden box frame with a breadboard surface that had various marked connections. You could connect power and the crystal and tuner and amp and make a radio! Although I was by no means a rich kid, I also had a "101 physics experiments" kit that included a little solar cell. Those kits were awesome! I was a lucky kid.
I have become familiar with the term "municipality". When a city takes on the role of service provider for it's residents in one service or another. I agree that it sounds all good, but without proper oversight and regulation "municipalities" can tend to run rampant as cash cows for the local politicians. I live in Azusa, California and have to put up with Azusa Light and Water.
Seriously guys, none of these spyware removers are even remotely perfect and they all suck time and CPU cycles. I disavow any knowledge of this guy, Mike Lin, but his itty-bitty FREEWARE program kicks butt.http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml It does one tiny little thing with almost zero overhead, it tells you what wants to insinuate itself into one of the several startup vectors of Windows. And gives you the option of not allowing it. Any spyware must have some part that runs at startup. This gives you a warning and a filename for googling to remove whatever you have contracted. Probably works for many worms, viruses, and trojans too.
Ah! Then try Security Taskmanager instead of that crappy windows taskmanager. Sorry, it's not free, but has a trial period. http://www.snapfiles.com/get/securitytask.html
Also, StartupManager (the free one that I can't recommend highly enough, see grandparent) catches stuff that tries to run at startup which is at least a valuable tipoff that something is wrong.
I don't have spyware cuz I check processes for new things that pop up (XP Pro). I've had malware before and I reformat ASAP. Now, one nifty line of defense I use is a freeware program called Startup Monitor. http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml
Actually, this may be related to where they come up with that 6.5 cents/kWh figure. You make a good argument about low RPM and loads, but with so many engines running half of each day, maintenance won't be free.
to service 20000 reciprocating engines. Even without combustion, that's a lot of moving parts. TFA made no mention of actual maintenance costs, but I can't believe the seal is the only thing that can go bad.
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OK. So EA is bottom of the barrel, mass produced, "fast food" of the game world. No experienced chef would work for McDonalds as no experienced programmer will work for EA. They still serve some sort of purpose as entry-level training, right?
You're 100% right that "green" vehicles suck. That's what makes the race car and the DOD humvee so frickin cool! The race car does go fast. 315kph is fast! The Humvee is even more impressive to me. The electric hybrid "burst" can make it climb 60 degree inclines?!?! TFA said the diesal motor was 138HP on a 4-ton vehicle. That's some electrical burst. As the tech advances it closes the performance gap with it's more established competitors.
I don't mean to troll, overall RFID is a good thing, but what if some poor guy's tag didn't read and he ends up the last guy in the building when the lights go out. Probably not that serious, but we have a whole new world of bugs to look forward to.
I think you use the word "religion" to refer to Christianity. From the Judeo-Christian education I recieved, I would say that Islamic societies during the period of the Crusades were fairly technologicaly advanced. I do believe that Hindus were pioneers in math some few millenia ago. Not all religions are the same, though most do share the central tenet of "be excellent to each other".
How simple can RFID readers be made? Could a big wire mesh be used about one inch under the field to read RFID tags in shoes and place each footstep of each player like a bigass touchscreen? Combine that with readers in gloves and a tag in the ball, from the time and distance between pass and catch the balls trajectory could be modeled. Software could fill in the rest of the body fairly accurately and you could create a 3D virtual replay from any angle! Maybe add a series of impact point tags to tell who hit who exactly where and when!
Having a tag inside a body doesn't seem to be the point. I imagine the tag would be in the plastic bracelet they give you (at least in the US, are those things used everywhere?). Anyway, this would eliminate misreading similar names and such human errors. Another good medical use might be having an RFID reader in the surgical instruments tray and tags on all the instruments. Lights or a readout could display when instruments are missing from the tray to prevent things getting left in a patient.
I'm still running Firefox 0.9.2 simply cuz it has NEVER crashed on my WinXP SP1 system. I have also never tried SP2. Seen to many bugs first hand to go near it. I often leave a few Firefox instances open with several tabs each for days at a time. It has NEVER crashed. It won't load my school's page due to redirection limit exceeded, but it has NEVER crashed. If it aint broke, why fix it?
But this won't help them find deviations in physical constants even if they "find them". Unless we build dozens or hundreds of these clocks, we'll never know if the universe is changing or if there is a manufacturing defect in the clock.
Surely you don't mean humans are the best predator "regardless of size"? And pound-for-pound, humans may be good, but my cat Gizmo is the "perfect" predator. In her age, she hunts only birds now (her tastes have refined), but she can still grab low flying ones right from the air!
Cops have a great deal of discretion with regard to misdemeanors. Often the only deciding factor is how much whiskey they've had. Only felonies actually require cops not to ignore it. The same is true to some degree with any position of enforcement right up to the president. (President doesn't make law, he enforces it, right?) It is not supposed to be this way, but that's just how it works from crossing guards all the way up to USPTO.
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All I can suggest is, as a kid my Dad bought me something like "101 electronic experiments" from radio shack circa early 80's (a quick google and I can't find anything, perhaps I have the name wrong?) It was a wooden box frame with a breadboard surface that had various marked connections. You could connect power and the crystal and tuner and amp and make a radio! Although I was by no means a rich kid, I also had a "101 physics experiments" kit that included a little solar cell. Those kits were awesome! I was a lucky kid.
I have become familiar with the term "municipality". When a city takes on the role of service provider for it's residents in one service or another. I agree that it sounds all good, but without proper oversight and regulation "municipalities" can tend to run rampant as cash cows for the local politicians. I live in Azusa, California and have to put up with Azusa Light and Water.
For cookies I use Firefox and disable 'em. Exceptions for Slashdot, of course.
So long as the user clicks "No", don't allow this. Just about anything will be left sitting dormant and ineffective on the HD. Am I correct?
Actually, a really good suggestion. I am learning stuff here. http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Securing_th e_Windows_2000_Registry.html
I don't mean to flame, but did you get paid to post that?
Seriously guys, none of these spyware removers are even remotely perfect and they all suck time and CPU cycles. I disavow any knowledge of this guy, Mike Lin, but his itty-bitty FREEWARE program kicks butt.http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml It does one tiny little thing with almost zero overhead, it tells you what wants to insinuate itself into one of the several startup vectors of Windows. And gives you the option of not allowing it. Any spyware must have some part that runs at startup. This gives you a warning and a filename for googling to remove whatever you have contracted. Probably works for many worms, viruses, and trojans too.
Ah! Then try Security Taskmanager instead of that crappy windows taskmanager. Sorry, it's not free, but has a trial period. http://www.snapfiles.com/get/securitytask.html Also, StartupManager (the free one that I can't recommend highly enough, see grandparent) catches stuff that tries to run at startup which is at least a valuable tipoff that something is wrong.
I don't have spyware cuz I check processes for new things that pop up (XP Pro). I've had malware before and I reformat ASAP. Now, one nifty line of defense I use is a freeware program called Startup Monitor. http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml
Actually, this may be related to where they come up with that 6.5 cents/kWh figure. You make a good argument about low RPM and loads, but with so many engines running half of each day, maintenance won't be free.
to service 20000 reciprocating engines. Even without combustion, that's a lot of moving parts. TFA made no mention of actual maintenance costs, but I can't believe the seal is the only thing that can go bad.
OK. So EA is bottom of the barrel, mass produced, "fast food" of the game world. No experienced chef would work for McDonalds as no experienced programmer will work for EA. They still serve some sort of purpose as entry-level training, right?
You're 100% right that "green" vehicles suck. That's what makes the race car and the DOD humvee so frickin cool! The race car does go fast. 315kph is fast! The Humvee is even more impressive to me. The electric hybrid "burst" can make it climb 60 degree inclines?!?! TFA said the diesal motor was 138HP on a 4-ton vehicle. That's some electrical burst. As the tech advances it closes the performance gap with it's more established competitors.
This year a man beat a horse in a marathon. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/3801177.stm
I don't mean to troll, overall RFID is a good thing, but what if some poor guy's tag didn't read and he ends up the last guy in the building when the lights go out. Probably not that serious, but we have a whole new world of bugs to look forward to.
I think you use the word "religion" to refer to Christianity. From the Judeo-Christian education I recieved, I would say that Islamic societies during the period of the Crusades were fairly technologicaly advanced. I do believe that Hindus were pioneers in math some few millenia ago. Not all religions are the same, though most do share the central tenet of "be excellent to each other".
How simple can RFID readers be made? Could a big wire mesh be used about one inch under the field to read RFID tags in shoes and place each footstep of each player like a bigass touchscreen? Combine that with readers in gloves and a tag in the ball, from the time and distance between pass and catch the balls trajectory could be modeled. Software could fill in the rest of the body fairly accurately and you could create a 3D virtual replay from any angle! Maybe add a series of impact point tags to tell who hit who exactly where and when!
Having a tag inside a body doesn't seem to be the point. I imagine the tag would be in the plastic bracelet they give you (at least in the US, are those things used everywhere?). Anyway, this would eliminate misreading similar names and such human errors. Another good medical use might be having an RFID reader in the surgical instruments tray and tags on all the instruments. Lights or a readout could display when instruments are missing from the tray to prevent things getting left in a patient.
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I'm still running Firefox 0.9.2 simply cuz it has NEVER crashed on my WinXP SP1 system. I have also never tried SP2. Seen to many bugs first hand to go near it. I often leave a few Firefox instances open with several tabs each for days at a time. It has NEVER crashed. It won't load my school's page due to redirection limit exceeded, but it has NEVER crashed. If it aint broke, why fix it?
But this won't help them find deviations in physical constants even if they "find them". Unless we build dozens or hundreds of these clocks, we'll never know if the universe is changing or if there is a manufacturing defect in the clock.
Surely you don't mean humans are the best predator "regardless of size"? And pound-for-pound, humans may be good, but my cat Gizmo is the "perfect" predator. In her age, she hunts only birds now (her tastes have refined), but she can still grab low flying ones right from the air!
Cops have a great deal of discretion with regard to misdemeanors. Often the only deciding factor is how much whiskey they've had. Only felonies actually require cops not to ignore it. The same is true to some degree with any position of enforcement right up to the president. (President doesn't make law, he enforces it, right?) It is not supposed to be this way, but that's just how it works from crossing guards all the way up to USPTO.
Step 1: sell nuclear holocost insurance
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit
No one will be around to collect.
this site deserves it http://www.lxkcc1.com/. Only problem is they don't let ya in. Anyone know how to get in?