There are insane losses on those things and they are at very high voltage to keep the losses down but also need high amperage and that is for a fairly known, predictable load. Imagine having the unpredictable load of cars hooking in and out as they travel.
For electric cars to work, you'll need charging stations or battery swaps. The only thing I can see that would change that is if you can build a small enough nuclear reactor to power your car (ala Fujitsu's nuclear batteries). They'll last for the majority of cars and can be built strong and safe enough to survive car accidents. The problem is going to be tinkering rednecks although that problem will eventually sort itself out as they get sterilized working on their cars.
If only Apple would GIVE you (for free) management tools for your iOS and other Apple devices (as of 10.7). The tech world changes, crapberries are dead, the latest outage should've demonstrated that for you as nobody cared that it was out. Those $2000 Windows laptops you gave them with $2000 worth of MS/Oracle licensing are not being used because they are too locked down and can't be used properly to do even the simplest of tasks.
Either way, people with these attitudes eventually get fired (thankfully) because it's not realistic to expect everyone (especially the suits) to carry around 5 year old cell phones that still have buttons and a 2" screen with a Dell Inspiron laptop. Those things are ugly and do not speak well of either the quality of their IT department or the arcane choices these executives make.
You don't have to pay the $99 to develop an app for your own phone. You see, there is this thing in the developer tools that tells you all this, it's called DOCUMENTATION. Read it for a change.
1) You don't have to have a phone, there's a perfectly good simulator in the development tools 2) You don't have to pay the $99 unless you want to publish it to the world, there is a thing in the development tools to set your phone in developer mode and you can then add your own compiled apps and keep them there up to a year. 3) If you don't want to buy a phone with a plan, buy an iPad or iPod Touch and they work all the same as the phone except for the dialing of course.
The above also works if you just want to open source your application. Everyone can get the development tools and set their phone in dev mode for your application, compile and upload it. Depending on your licensing of choice, you can both sell the app and give the source code away for free.
Off course, selling anything (making a business) is going to involve some risk. There is no doubt that anything you do you'll have to invest in. If you want to start a real-world business, you need to rent space, ads etc. Online you can do all of that (rent space, ads) on your own but you'll still have to set up a website ($299/month for hosting), ads (1-25 cents per click through + 10% of sales made through the ad). I don't know any space online that lets you host a commercial website with the capacity to take on hundreds of visitors per day and also handles your advertisments in a public space etc. for $99/year.
There are off course, those MRI-safe headphones. Ours has a full (non-ferromagnetic) metallic unit (aluminum) inside the scanner room linked with fiber optics. There is a surprising amount of metal that can be in an MRI suite but it has to be specifically designed for it. However everything (cables, solder, chips) have to have specific properties.
Except there does not need to be a transcendent plane for the universe to exist. There are perfectly good hypothesis which have been proven in theory on their way of becoming scientific theories as they are being tested on how the universe popped into existence from nothing and it's consistent with the big bang theory which has been sufficiently proven.
God is dead, get over it. If you believe in a god that's perfectly fine but if you replace science with gods you're going the wrong way and you would also have to hang certain labels on him (perfectly just, omnipotent and omniscient) which makes him/her/it inconsistent with both scientific discovery and the pain and suffering in the world or any holy book ever written.
God is a figment of imagination there to fill up the holes in our understanding of how stuff works and as we're filling those holes we are effectively leaving little place for it to exist.
Interesting you quote the bible as that is the last place you should be looking for a god since the god in that book is a megalomaniac and a round-out evil person, believing in a borrowed god of war became a monotheistic religion for some reason.
Some countries indeed had the making available clause in most of their laws. However the new laws that implement 1-3 strikes (ACTA, TPP and alike) actually make downloading (consuming) media (any) illegal in any type of fashion which you haven't payed for. Even if someone would upload a video to Youtube without full and proper licensing (such as an artist promoting their album), you downloading it would be illegal.
It exists in various forms. One of those containers is called DICOM and is used extensively in the medical field. It's a really great format (albeit very specific in use) but also a lot of overhead gets into it. It even specifies the Endianness of your data.
The main problem is standardizing it in a way that is both flexible, usable and quick. I see this problem with DICOM all the time, every vendor of medical software attaches it's own tags in binary or other unreadable form (XML) and some even make the tags for important metadata invalid in order to lock the end-user into a specific solution for eternity.
It may not be legal for you (or your beneficiaries) to access your account(s) even if you/they have the passwords. There is a reason banks etc. ask for death certificates and wills. Especially if the will has not been executed yet (your siblings may decide to fight over it) you may be legally in hot water depending on your jurisdiction for even accessing any type of account, e-mail etc.
There is a huge issue with current sites (like eBay, Paypal, Facebook...) that simply don't have these processes implemented but you could legally ask or force them to give you access if you are the executor of the will (especially when they manage part of the estate as a traditional bank would).
If he had a (legal) business on eBay (check with a tax professional as you may also be inheriting a few years of unpaid income taxes) and you inherited that business by acceptance of the estate you will also have to fulfill the obligations (return money, products, fees etc.) so check with an eBay support person on how this can be done.
People always think that inheritance is a good thing (financially seen) but people have a lot of skeletons in the closet sometimes even hidden from their own children and wives which even if you accept an inheritance of a million dollar property, you also inherit the debts and obligations of said estate.
With ear plugs and noise canceling headphones with music on it is quite quiet in there. Some modern scanners actually have noise cancelling speakers in the bore but it gets hard to fit a lot of stuff in there safely without impeding your scans or space. There is a lot of research being done in the commercial space to make them more aesthetic but in the end, you're dealing with quite a strong force in there, it's hard to counteract nature.
Simply use ZFS across your drives. There is no way you can use all your resources (network bandwidth, disk bandwidth) even on a low-end machine unless you get to ~50-200TB and require more than ~100,000 IOPS (which is doable on a single machine loaded with SSD, memory and 10GbE). There are setups that offer 1PB with 1M IOPS running on 2 very beefy (failover) hosts, only after that, distributed becomes necessary (unless of course you need geographical distribution).
Distributed file systems are nice if you know what to use them for. If you don't (as you already admit being lackluster with eg. your RAID setup), you'll risk losing more data to it than it will ever help you. Yes, doing it wrong has a much higher chance of your data getting lost than simply going for a single machine.
Blood screening could come before the expensive (and sometimes dangerous) scanners and the "hunt for the lost tumor". The problem is two-fold really: too many screenings are prescribed to those that can afford good health care in order to pad the bills and too little screenings are provided for those that cannot thereby inflating the case being made for 'better screenings = less loss of life'.
You can do blood tests for just about anything, cancer, head trauma, during pregnancy to detect various things potentially wrong with the baby. I've gone through the scare of my daughter maybe having Down syndrome based on the blood tests (chance went from 1/300 to 1/25). We had the choice for a more invasive procedure which would have accurately told us but it also had a 1 in 10,000 chance of a premature birth (I forgot the exact number).
Some people may want to abort in case they cannot afford to raise a Down syndrome baby (as it is really expensive) and choose to take the test, others may not care as much. In the end it all comes down (in the US) whether you can afford to make certain choices. It's both good and bad as you can chose how much to spend on health care but on the other end, too many fall through the net and go without any health care options.
That's not necessarily true. Many European countries have anti-monopoly laws that state you cannot sell products under cost to drive out competitors. I don't know if that's the case in portugal but given their run-ins with the EU courts they'll be careful about it.
If you're talking about UV, you're talking about EPROM, not EEPROM. Big difference.
Either way, PROM programmers are prevalent and you can build them yourself especially if your PROM (like some PIC and most modern all-in-one boards) comes with a serial port. Some resistors and capacitors, sometimes a single chip will get you a serial-port PIC programmer. For USB-serial I like the KeySpan USA19HS since they have Windows, Mac and Linux support and are not too picky about the signals.
It really depends on what type of boards you want to program. These days, an Arduino or similar system will do a LOT of things with 1 system that you used to have a range of different micro controllers for (I used to have a few PIC's, 8051, ARM boards, AVR). Unless you're embedding in a specific cost you don't need to do that anymore.
The actual origin of the god Yahweh is largely up to conjecture but the commonly accepted explanation is that he was part of a local polytheistic religion. Some say, he was introduced by invading tribes or a Canaanite god was the source of it. It is definitely not the Jews giving their god to others as very similar gods and myths (flood, angry god, good god vs. evil adversary) in surrounding nations predate Yahweh by at least 1500 years, Judaism was very late in it's origin (~2000 BCE).
As far as the books: The Infancy Gospels of James and Thomas come to mind. There is one story where Jesus as a boy gets angry at another kid for doing something wrong and 'withers' the boy, later on he kills another one and turns the people that complained blind.
As is any holiday on the so-called Christian calendar as well as their god. Their god (Yahweh) is the mythical god of war borrowed from other cultures. Jesus is his hippie son who all-in-all wasn't that good of a guy either, just the book about his youth and early work was conveniently censored during the several meetings they had over the acceptable canon of their mythical books.
Trust me, within 200-500 years, people will be making the same mistakes about Darth Vader and Luke, there will be wars fought over who shot first and whether Leia had sex with her brother.
It's not the airwaves that are limited. It's the link-up to the antenna. There are several techniques available to have good data transmission over the air, look at WiFi - >100Mbps over the air. GSM and CDMA use frequencies that are even better than WiFi, are severely protected against interference from other radios and current CDMA techniques can handle 100's of subscribers at 1-5Mbps.
The problem is as I said, the link up. I used to work for a large ISP, the link-ups in big cities are frequently ISDN (256kbps), a leased line (several 64kbps lines) or at best a few fractional T1's (for a total of 3-6Mbps) and even though the infrastructure is there (new towers often have fiber), they simply do not want to use their profits to expand it.
But maybe just stabilization in water at first (like fishes' fins and penguins), then later stabilization while sliding on muddy or icy land into landing slower from larger heights, gliding into flying.
When you have Lion, make an iCloud account and use Back To My Mac and Find My Mac to find your computer. Also, make sure to encrypt your computer and you can lock or wipe it remotely. Sure it's not perfect but it will help a lot with recovery or at least make sure you don't lose important data to others.
If you leave it in a hotel or so, there are those locks you can tether around a desk or so, some upper scale hotels have them at the front desk. It will help against unwanted removal of your device.
Ever ordered a Mac? You've got plenty of choices in CPU, memory, hard disk, display, software, peripherals and if you don't want to pay for the memory or disks, they are designated 'user-replacable' anyway.
Dell and some others has imho too many choices - do you want 4GB of RAM in 2x2GB, 1x4GB, 4x1GB, DDR2 (which although available wouldn't fit), DDR3 5300, DDR3 6400. Why would I even want to have a choice in which 802.11n wireless adapter to put into the machine?
Yes, if only you had the option to send center/right events, you know maybe by using the option button or using two fingers to tap or using a dedicated area of the mousepad.
Thinkpad was taken over by Lenovo and has gotten crappier ever since, the only thing left of the IBM heritage on those machines is the clit-mouse. Maybe for tinkering you want to be very flexible in your choices but for most business and consumer devices you WANT to have the same machine and the cost of maintaining a single image and support line for everyone is a lot less expensive than saving an extra $200 (trust me, I've been there, once you include all the costs and features, the difference is not more than a couple of 100 if there is one at all). And then you haven't included yet the cost for Bluetooth support, uncrappy DisplayPort/HDMI output, 802.11n, battery life, a proper GPU, driver support etc.
Simply try re-imaging Windows onto a different machine. Even if properly sysprepped you still run into issues if your XP image didn't have support for the latest SATA controller or the HAL changes significantly or the network card changes from a generic Intel or Realtek to an obscure Broadcom and even within the same line of certain-brand-name computers (starting with a D) you can get those issues.
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There are insane losses on those things and they are at very high voltage to keep the losses down but also need high amperage and that is for a fairly known, predictable load. Imagine having the unpredictable load of cars hooking in and out as they travel.
For electric cars to work, you'll need charging stations or battery swaps. The only thing I can see that would change that is if you can build a small enough nuclear reactor to power your car (ala Fujitsu's nuclear batteries). They'll last for the majority of cars and can be built strong and safe enough to survive car accidents. The problem is going to be tinkering rednecks although that problem will eventually sort itself out as they get sterilized working on their cars.
If only Apple would GIVE you (for free) management tools for your iOS and other Apple devices (as of 10.7). The tech world changes, crapberries are dead, the latest outage should've demonstrated that for you as nobody cared that it was out. Those $2000 Windows laptops you gave them with $2000 worth of MS/Oracle licensing are not being used because they are too locked down and can't be used properly to do even the simplest of tasks.
Either way, people with these attitudes eventually get fired (thankfully) because it's not realistic to expect everyone (especially the suits) to carry around 5 year old cell phones that still have buttons and a 2" screen with a Dell Inspiron laptop. Those things are ugly and do not speak well of either the quality of their IT department or the arcane choices these executives make.
If only iOS supported Exchange/IMAP and had Enterprise Deployment guidelines.
I thought it was $299... http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/enterprise/
You don't have to pay the $99 to develop an app for your own phone. You see, there is this thing in the developer tools that tells you all this, it's called DOCUMENTATION. Read it for a change.
1) You don't have to have a phone, there's a perfectly good simulator in the development tools
2) You don't have to pay the $99 unless you want to publish it to the world, there is a thing in the development tools to set your phone in developer mode and you can then add your own compiled apps and keep them there up to a year.
3) If you don't want to buy a phone with a plan, buy an iPad or iPod Touch and they work all the same as the phone except for the dialing of course.
The above also works if you just want to open source your application. Everyone can get the development tools and set their phone in dev mode for your application, compile and upload it. Depending on your licensing of choice, you can both sell the app and give the source code away for free.
Off course, selling anything (making a business) is going to involve some risk. There is no doubt that anything you do you'll have to invest in. If you want to start a real-world business, you need to rent space, ads etc. Online you can do all of that (rent space, ads) on your own but you'll still have to set up a website ($299/month for hosting), ads (1-25 cents per click through + 10% of sales made through the ad). I don't know any space online that lets you host a commercial website with the capacity to take on hundreds of visitors per day and also handles your advertisments in a public space etc. for $99/year.
There are off course, those MRI-safe headphones. Ours has a full (non-ferromagnetic) metallic unit (aluminum) inside the scanner room linked with fiber optics. There is a surprising amount of metal that can be in an MRI suite but it has to be specifically designed for it. However everything (cables, solder, chips) have to have specific properties.
Except there does not need to be a transcendent plane for the universe to exist. There are perfectly good hypothesis which have been proven in theory on their way of becoming scientific theories as they are being tested on how the universe popped into existence from nothing and it's consistent with the big bang theory which has been sufficiently proven.
God is dead, get over it. If you believe in a god that's perfectly fine but if you replace science with gods you're going the wrong way and you would also have to hang certain labels on him (perfectly just, omnipotent and omniscient) which makes him/her/it inconsistent with both scientific discovery and the pain and suffering in the world or any holy book ever written.
God is a figment of imagination there to fill up the holes in our understanding of how stuff works and as we're filling those holes we are effectively leaving little place for it to exist.
Interesting you quote the bible as that is the last place you should be looking for a god since the god in that book is a megalomaniac and a round-out evil person, believing in a borrowed god of war became a monotheistic religion for some reason.
Some countries indeed had the making available clause in most of their laws. However the new laws that implement 1-3 strikes (ACTA, TPP and alike) actually make downloading (consuming) media (any) illegal in any type of fashion which you haven't payed for. Even if someone would upload a video to Youtube without full and proper licensing (such as an artist promoting their album), you downloading it would be illegal.
Unless the girls and guys are polyamorous, then there is a lot less competition.
It exists in various forms. One of those containers is called DICOM and is used extensively in the medical field. It's a really great format (albeit very specific in use) but also a lot of overhead gets into it. It even specifies the Endianness of your data.
The main problem is standardizing it in a way that is both flexible, usable and quick. I see this problem with DICOM all the time, every vendor of medical software attaches it's own tags in binary or other unreadable form (XML) and some even make the tags for important metadata invalid in order to lock the end-user into a specific solution for eternity.
It may not be legal for you (or your beneficiaries) to access your account(s) even if you/they have the passwords. There is a reason banks etc. ask for death certificates and wills. Especially if the will has not been executed yet (your siblings may decide to fight over it) you may be legally in hot water depending on your jurisdiction for even accessing any type of account, e-mail etc.
There is a huge issue with current sites (like eBay, Paypal, Facebook...) that simply don't have these processes implemented but you could legally ask or force them to give you access if you are the executor of the will (especially when they manage part of the estate as a traditional bank would).
If he had a (legal) business on eBay (check with a tax professional as you may also be inheriting a few years of unpaid income taxes) and you inherited that business by acceptance of the estate you will also have to fulfill the obligations (return money, products, fees etc.) so check with an eBay support person on how this can be done.
People always think that inheritance is a good thing (financially seen) but people have a lot of skeletons in the closet sometimes even hidden from their own children and wives which even if you accept an inheritance of a million dollar property, you also inherit the debts and obligations of said estate.
With ear plugs and noise canceling headphones with music on it is quite quiet in there. Some modern scanners actually have noise cancelling speakers in the bore but it gets hard to fit a lot of stuff in there safely without impeding your scans or space. There is a lot of research being done in the commercial space to make them more aesthetic but in the end, you're dealing with quite a strong force in there, it's hard to counteract nature.
Simply use ZFS across your drives. There is no way you can use all your resources (network bandwidth, disk bandwidth) even on a low-end machine unless you get to ~50-200TB and require more than ~100,000 IOPS (which is doable on a single machine loaded with SSD, memory and 10GbE). There are setups that offer 1PB with 1M IOPS running on 2 very beefy (failover) hosts, only after that, distributed becomes necessary (unless of course you need geographical distribution).
Distributed file systems are nice if you know what to use them for. If you don't (as you already admit being lackluster with eg. your RAID setup), you'll risk losing more data to it than it will ever help you. Yes, doing it wrong has a much higher chance of your data getting lost than simply going for a single machine.
Blood screening could come before the expensive (and sometimes dangerous) scanners and the "hunt for the lost tumor". The problem is two-fold really: too many screenings are prescribed to those that can afford good health care in order to pad the bills and too little screenings are provided for those that cannot thereby inflating the case being made for 'better screenings = less loss of life'.
You can do blood tests for just about anything, cancer, head trauma, during pregnancy to detect various things potentially wrong with the baby. I've gone through the scare of my daughter maybe having Down syndrome based on the blood tests (chance went from 1/300 to 1/25). We had the choice for a more invasive procedure which would have accurately told us but it also had a 1 in 10,000 chance of a premature birth (I forgot the exact number).
Some people may want to abort in case they cannot afford to raise a Down syndrome baby (as it is really expensive) and choose to take the test, others may not care as much. In the end it all comes down (in the US) whether you can afford to make certain choices. It's both good and bad as you can chose how much to spend on health care but on the other end, too many fall through the net and go without any health care options.
That's not necessarily true. Many European countries have anti-monopoly laws that state you cannot sell products under cost to drive out competitors. I don't know if that's the case in portugal but given their run-ins with the EU courts they'll be careful about it.
If you're talking about UV, you're talking about EPROM, not EEPROM. Big difference.
Either way, PROM programmers are prevalent and you can build them yourself especially if your PROM (like some PIC and most modern all-in-one boards) comes with a serial port. Some resistors and capacitors, sometimes a single chip will get you a serial-port PIC programmer. For USB-serial I like the KeySpan USA19HS since they have Windows, Mac and Linux support and are not too picky about the signals.
It really depends on what type of boards you want to program. These days, an Arduino or similar system will do a LOT of things with 1 system that you used to have a range of different micro controllers for (I used to have a few PIC's, 8051, ARM boards, AVR). Unless you're embedding in a specific cost you don't need to do that anymore.
The actual origin of the god Yahweh is largely up to conjecture but the commonly accepted explanation is that he was part of a local polytheistic religion. Some say, he was introduced by invading tribes or a Canaanite god was the source of it. It is definitely not the Jews giving their god to others as very similar gods and myths (flood, angry god, good god vs. evil adversary) in surrounding nations predate Yahweh by at least 1500 years, Judaism was very late in it's origin (~2000 BCE).
As far as the books: The Infancy Gospels of James and Thomas come to mind. There is one story where Jesus as a boy gets angry at another kid for doing something wrong and 'withers' the boy, later on he kills another one and turns the people that complained blind.
As is any holiday on the so-called Christian calendar as well as their god. Their god (Yahweh) is the mythical god of war borrowed from other cultures. Jesus is his hippie son who all-in-all wasn't that good of a guy either, just the book about his youth and early work was conveniently censored during the several meetings they had over the acceptable canon of their mythical books.
Trust me, within 200-500 years, people will be making the same mistakes about Darth Vader and Luke, there will be wars fought over who shot first and whether Leia had sex with her brother.
It's not the airwaves that are limited. It's the link-up to the antenna. There are several techniques available to have good data transmission over the air, look at WiFi - >100Mbps over the air. GSM and CDMA use frequencies that are even better than WiFi, are severely protected against interference from other radios and current CDMA techniques can handle 100's of subscribers at 1-5Mbps.
The problem is as I said, the link up. I used to work for a large ISP, the link-ups in big cities are frequently ISDN (256kbps), a leased line (several 64kbps lines) or at best a few fractional T1's (for a total of 3-6Mbps) and even though the infrastructure is there (new towers often have fiber), they simply do not want to use their profits to expand it.
But maybe just stabilization in water at first (like fishes' fins and penguins), then later stabilization while sliding on muddy or icy land into landing slower from larger heights, gliding into flying.
But what does it mean in court. Lawyers seem to have a whole different interpretation of both law and English.
When you have Lion, make an iCloud account and use Back To My Mac and Find My Mac to find your computer. Also, make sure to encrypt your computer and you can lock or wipe it remotely. Sure it's not perfect but it will help a lot with recovery or at least make sure you don't lose important data to others.
If you leave it in a hotel or so, there are those locks you can tether around a desk or so, some upper scale hotels have them at the front desk. It will help against unwanted removal of your device.
Ever ordered a Mac? You've got plenty of choices in CPU, memory, hard disk, display, software, peripherals and if you don't want to pay for the memory or disks, they are designated 'user-replacable' anyway.
Dell and some others has imho too many choices - do you want 4GB of RAM in 2x2GB, 1x4GB, 4x1GB, DDR2 (which although available wouldn't fit), DDR3 5300, DDR3 6400. Why would I even want to have a choice in which 802.11n wireless adapter to put into the machine?
Yes, if only you had the option to send center/right events, you know maybe by using the option button or using two fingers to tap or using a dedicated area of the mousepad.
Thinkpad was taken over by Lenovo and has gotten crappier ever since, the only thing left of the IBM heritage on those machines is the clit-mouse. Maybe for tinkering you want to be very flexible in your choices but for most business and consumer devices you WANT to have the same machine and the cost of maintaining a single image and support line for everyone is a lot less expensive than saving an extra $200 (trust me, I've been there, once you include all the costs and features, the difference is not more than a couple of 100 if there is one at all). And then you haven't included yet the cost for Bluetooth support, uncrappy DisplayPort/HDMI output, 802.11n, battery life, a proper GPU, driver support etc.
Simply try re-imaging Windows onto a different machine. Even if properly sysprepped you still run into issues if your XP image didn't have support for the latest SATA controller or the HAL changes significantly or the network card changes from a generic Intel or Realtek to an obscure Broadcom and even within the same line of certain-brand-name computers (starting with a D) you can get those issues.
Since Bush in 2001. (PATRIOT Act). Extended by Obush in 2011.
The terrorists won.