My old Dodge Durango had this problem. The car wash places would always install the floormat incorrectly, and when I'd push the throttle, it'd get stuck down. Happened 4 times. Always just put it in neutral and the engine would just bounce from red line to zero to red lien to zero, a little disconcerting, but I was never really worried about the car, just my life so I paid it no attention and would just glide to the side of the road and fix it.
The real problem here is that people don't understand/recognize when they're in life or death situations, so they don't react accordingly.
The problem is while you might think that the company/person/video is cool and cutting edge, a lot of times it isn't. I've seen a couple of companies featured that are way behind the curve in my field and not really doing anything interesting other than trying to generate press. So, it looks, talks and smells like an advertisement to me when I see those.
Be a bit more discerning than "Hey, I know so-and-so at [X tech company], let's make a video about it," because a lot of times X tech company really isn't doing anything neat or even that novel. So it really looks bad that you felt it so important to feature them in a video, but then they really aren't doing anything *that* special.
Exactly. If they're really serious about this, they should really implement a "Keep Your Shoes On" policy. The chances of survival in an airplane crash where you have to egress around debris/burning material is near nil.
Even better would be a "No Open Toed Shoes" policy.
Or the policy makers should realize that these events are rare enough that they're always going to catch people off guard regardless of what policies you institute.
Ah, but some of the new features in Office 2010 w/ regards to document maps and creating large technical documents are easily worth the price of admission. I love that WINE can do Office 2010 now, because in some cases on my Windows machine I'm using the free Office 2010 starter pack over the full 2007 pack until IT decides we can upgrade precisely because in certain situations it makes me much more productive. Being able to do that on my Linux boxes now without having to boot back into Windows or fire up a heavy VM is very nice.
Don't forget that in response to LightSquared, DirectTV and pretty much every single company that owns satellite to ground spectrum was filing for similar waivers essentially re-purposing satellite communications to ground-base communications and creating the potential for satellite apocalypse as it becomes thousands of times harder to communicate with *all* satellites, effecting weather, hurricane, tsunami forecasting, early warning systems, satTV and radio, etc, etc. GPS/LightSquared was the proxy war for all of these other providers and it's very, very good that LightSquared did not win.
No, the government picks up some of the pensions of the busted company. Basic Bain capital 101 -- If a company is going under, loot the pension fund, pay it to yourself and then declare bankruptcy. Then the taxpayer picks up the tab to keep those people from being homeless in the streets and committing crimes and rioting and killing executives in the form of pension guarantees, poverty assistance, etc.
They were designed to be GUARANTEED to work for 3 months, which typically means that the usable lifetime is considerably longer. Pretty standard engineering stuff.
Exactly. They took relatively cheap satellite spectrum (cheaper, because you have to put satellites in orbit) and tried to get it re-purposed as ground-based spectrum, which costs billions of dollars more. It was really pretty ballsy and elegant; make your spectrum worth billions of dollars more just by filing paperwork and hoping that you slip by.
The REAL kicker came in when DirectTV, and pretty much every single company that owns satellite spectrum said "what's good for the goose is good for the gander" and all filed paperwork requesting the same waivers. I mean, you can't expect them not to try and make the spectrum that they already own worth billions more. So, the FCC got flooded with all of these waivers, realized that this was going to destroy spectrum allocations across the US and cause untold disruptions as you open up massive chunks of bandwidth to high power, ground-based transmitters.
We're not talking about just knocking out GPS. If LightSquared got approved, they'd have to approve other companies waivers also, and but pretty much every single service that relies on a satellite would go kaput. Pretty simple decision for the FCC to make....
Ah, you must never have gotten one of their printers that is flaky as all get out with "just" the 40MB install, and you end up downloading the whole 200MB package just to get the printer to work right...
Their fantasy football app is horrible. Absolutely horrible. Honestly, upon first loading it downloads and caches a huge video. On my Android phone, it routinely is taking up 50+MB of space to *JUST SHOW TEXT*, and has limited options for how to browse and do things. This causes all types of problems particularly since I am running low on internal memory and I move iot to the SD card, and it takes no kidding 30 seconds to launch because it has to pull all that data across from the SD card, cache, load, then hit the internet, look for a new video to download, etc. But man, do it ever eat up the bandwidth downloading new videos all the time!
They. Just. Do. Not. Get. Mobile.
They bought out the group that does Sportstacular, which is one of the nicer sports apps out there, and I've just been waiting for that to go to shit also along with all their other mobile properties.
Care to elaborate? It's really not very hard at all to put the RAM in another machine, and boot that machine with a little bootloader/program that just dumps to contents of RAM to a file.
What do you mean always? Raising the debt limit has never been a "to the wire" affair. That's actually, specifically, one of the reason's that the S&P gave as for why they downgraded the credit rating. Go read their report. Their largest problems: political gridlock and going "to the wire" over previous normal stuff, and not considering raising revenue. That's really what downgraded the rating.
Not that I care, the other credit ratings maintained the US as AAA status, so it's not a huge deal at least yet.
Some Cisco and other high end access points have beamforming networks that can place antenna nulls in directions of interferes (other AP's, microwaves, etc) and point the peak of the beam directly at a user among all types of other fancy tricks.
They work wonderfully well in noisy, cluttered environments. Give them a shot.
However....... that does not eliminate your obligations to the patent holder of the existing process. You need to have a licensing deal with them, and in order for them to use your "added value" process they need to license from you.
It does work that way, but it is quite rare because nobody puts the resources in to put a patent "on top" of another patent. The "top" can be effectively prohibited from bringing a product to market and the "bottom" can just sit there forever and not care.
Uh, it's much more common than you think.
If a competitor isn't willing to license a patent to you, you find something to add on to theirs that they are going to have to use in the future. Some simple mod like "but portable!". Patent it. Then wave it in front of their faces and make them cross-license. Pretty industry standard. Also a pretty good way to build a patent portfolio if you need to -- just simply modify existing important patents and get your own patent toolchest.
I run Gallery3 on a server for my family photos, and everyone including my grandma uploads pictures jsut fine. You navigate to the album you want, then click upload and select files. Then you can rotate them, etc. Quite frankly, it's as easy or easier than facebook. Definitely easier if Grandma makes a mistake and double-uploads or puts them in the wrong album. Since I own the site I can just move them as needed.
Are you kidding me? Sparks and Hangouts and Huddle, at least for me, ARE the reason to start using it. Hangouts are amazingly awesome for when my whole fmaily, some technically inept and some adept, all want to watch a live video cast of my daughter's first birthday without having to install a bunch of different programs (I've used Qik, youtube live stuff, justin.tv, others and they just don't work that well for technically inept people or technically adept people that don't want to install yet another plugin), or if I'm talking to my daughter in the evening while on travel, all the grandparent's aren't hopping on wanting some time too once they see my wife on ghcat. She can now just open a hangout, and the family can pop in and and say hi without interrupting whomever else was video chatting. I really see this being a drastic jump ahead in the basic set of capabilities that the most basic of computer users expect baked in.
From how it's been working so far, I can say that this feature alone will likely shift the whole family's social presence across into G+.
Along with what so far appears to be a mobile application that's light years ahead of facebook's. I'm pretty pumped.
Hmmmmm....if only you had access to the biggest search engine in the world's code base so that you could work around this issue. That would really solve the problem.
/tinfoil Maybe putting a + at the end makes it harder for other sites/people to aggregate and crawl the data? Maybe Google wants it that way.
Leap seconds is already included in the GPS stream. So, with the GPS stream you get GPS time, and UTC time. Most GPS receivers output GPS time until they've received the NAV or other message that has the leapseconds count in it, and then correctly updates to UTC time. It seems like a simple, solved problem. Am I missing something with respect to your leap year stuff?
Yea, I've flown about once a week for about 5 months now, and I've been through a scanner exactly once, and opted out for a frisk 3 times.
Most airports have them, and they're on, but just standing in the security line and observing what's going on you can reduce your risk of getting put through one pretty considerably.
I did get randomly picked by the metal detector for explosives testing though, and my luggage had explosive residue all over them. I just had my wife, whom had made it through, take all of my luggage and just leave my shoes because I was already late for the plane and didn't want a positive explosives test holding me up more.
I was pretty floored that I could stand there yelling at my wife through the plastic holding cell to take all of our luggage because I had explosive residue on mine while surrounded by TSA agents, and not one even blinked.
We have hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on these scanners and security, and having public outcry, and potentially giving people cancer, and in the end the TSA expects you to point kindly point out the baggage that you're carrying explosives in to them so that they can go find the explosives. Yea, can't think of anything that could go wrong there! Trust the terrorists to tell them where their bomb is via a simple question!
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Unless you use different frequencies for neighboring towers
You do realize that that is exactly how the cell phone system works, right?
This.
My old Dodge Durango had this problem. The car wash places would always install the floormat incorrectly, and when I'd push the throttle, it'd get stuck down. Happened 4 times. Always just put it in neutral and the engine would just bounce from red line to zero to red lien to zero, a little disconcerting, but I was never really worried about the car, just my life so I paid it no attention and would just glide to the side of the road and fix it.
The real problem here is that people don't understand/recognize when they're in life or death situations, so they don't react accordingly.
The problem is while you might think that the company/person/video is cool and cutting edge, a lot of times it isn't. I've seen a couple of companies featured that are way behind the curve in my field and not really doing anything interesting other than trying to generate press. So, it looks, talks and smells like an advertisement to me when I see those.
Be a bit more discerning than "Hey, I know so-and-so at [X tech company], let's make a video about it," because a lot of times X tech company really isn't doing anything neat or even that novel. So it really looks bad that you felt it so important to feature them in a video, but then they really aren't doing anything *that* special.
More gear-head stuff, less talking heads?
Exactly. If they're really serious about this, they should really implement a "Keep Your Shoes On" policy. The chances of survival in an airplane crash where you have to egress around debris/burning material is near nil.
Even better would be a "No Open Toed Shoes" policy.
Or the policy makers should realize that these events are rare enough that they're always going to catch people off guard regardless of what policies you institute.
Ah, but some of the new features in Office 2010 w/ regards to document maps and creating large technical documents are easily worth the price of admission. I love that WINE can do Office 2010 now, because in some cases on my Windows machine I'm using the free Office 2010 starter pack over the full 2007 pack until IT decides we can upgrade precisely because in certain situations it makes me much more productive. Being able to do that on my Linux boxes now without having to boot back into Windows or fire up a heavy VM is very nice.
Don't forget that in response to LightSquared, DirectTV and pretty much every single company that owns satellite to ground spectrum was filing for similar waivers essentially re-purposing satellite communications to ground-base communications and creating the potential for satellite apocalypse as it becomes thousands of times harder to communicate with *all* satellites, effecting weather, hurricane, tsunami forecasting, early warning systems, satTV and radio, etc, etc. GPS/LightSquared was the proxy war for all of these other providers and it's very, very good that LightSquared did not win.
No, the government picks up some of the pensions of the busted company. Basic Bain capital 101 -- If a company is going under, loot the pension fund, pay it to yourself and then declare bankruptcy. Then the taxpayer picks up the tab to keep those people from being homeless in the streets and committing crimes and rioting and killing executives in the form of pension guarantees, poverty assistance, etc.
They were designed to be GUARANTEED to work for 3 months, which typically means that the usable lifetime is considerably longer. Pretty standard engineering stuff.
Exactly. They took relatively cheap satellite spectrum (cheaper, because you have to put satellites in orbit) and tried to get it re-purposed as ground-based spectrum, which costs billions of dollars more. It was really pretty ballsy and elegant; make your spectrum worth billions of dollars more just by filing paperwork and hoping that you slip by. The REAL kicker came in when DirectTV, and pretty much every single company that owns satellite spectrum said "what's good for the goose is good for the gander" and all filed paperwork requesting the same waivers. I mean, you can't expect them not to try and make the spectrum that they already own worth billions more. So, the FCC got flooded with all of these waivers, realized that this was going to destroy spectrum allocations across the US and cause untold disruptions as you open up massive chunks of bandwidth to high power, ground-based transmitters. We're not talking about just knocking out GPS. If LightSquared got approved, they'd have to approve other companies waivers also, and but pretty much every single service that relies on a satellite would go kaput. Pretty simple decision for the FCC to make....
Ah, you must never have gotten one of their printers that is flaky as all get out with "just" the 40MB install, and you end up downloading the whole 200MB package just to get the printer to work right...
Their fantasy football is great.
Their fantasy football app is horrible. Absolutely horrible. Honestly, upon first loading it downloads and caches a huge video. On my Android phone, it routinely is taking up 50+MB of space to *JUST SHOW TEXT*, and has limited options for how to browse and do things. This causes all types of problems particularly since I am running low on internal memory and I move iot to the SD card, and it takes no kidding 30 seconds to launch because it has to pull all that data across from the SD card, cache, load, then hit the internet, look for a new video to download, etc. But man, do it ever eat up the bandwidth downloading new videos all the time!
They. Just. Do. Not. Get. Mobile.
They bought out the group that does Sportstacular, which is one of the nicer sports apps out there, and I've just been waiting for that to go to shit also along with all their other mobile properties.
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Care to elaborate? It's really not very hard at all to put the RAM in another machine, and boot that machine with a little bootloader/program that just dumps to contents of RAM to a file.
The dude even linked to the tool and the technical explanation: http://www.mcgrewsecurity.com/tools/msramdmp/
What do you mean always? Raising the debt limit has never been a "to the wire" affair. That's actually, specifically, one of the reason's that the S&P gave as for why they downgraded the credit rating. Go read their report. Their largest problems: political gridlock and going "to the wire" over previous normal stuff, and not considering raising revenue. That's really what downgraded the rating.
Not that I care, the other credit ratings maintained the US as AAA status, so it's not a huge deal at least yet.
Some Cisco and other high end access points have beamforming networks that can place antenna nulls in directions of interferes (other AP's, microwaves, etc) and point the peak of the beam directly at a user among all types of other fancy tricks.
They work wonderfully well in noisy, cluttered environments. Give them a shot.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/wireless/ps5678/ps10092/white_paper_c11-516389.html
Google hasn't released what they've considered "official" sources for Honeycomb, but lots of the code shipping on tablets, etc is out there.
http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=Eee+Pad+Transformer+TF101&p=20&s=16
Here's the Honeycomb branch of the Xoom kernel: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/tegra.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/android-tegra-2.6.36-honeycomb-mr1
and so on. Yea, it's not open source in the bazaar-style development model, but Google puts the sources out in reasonable timeframes.
However....... that does not eliminate your obligations to the patent holder of the existing process. You need to have a licensing deal with them, and in order for them to use your "added value" process they need to license from you.
It does work that way, but it is quite rare because nobody puts the resources in to put a patent "on top" of another patent. The "top" can be effectively prohibited from bringing a product to market and the "bottom" can just sit there forever and not care.
Uh, it's much more common than you think.
If a competitor isn't willing to license a patent to you, you find something to add on to theirs that they are going to have to use in the future. Some simple mod like "but portable!". Patent it. Then wave it in front of their faces and make them cross-license. Pretty industry standard. Also a pretty good way to build a patent portfolio if you need to -- just simply modify existing important patents and get your own patent toolchest.
mplayer for Android has been ported: http://www.xda-developers.com/android/mplayer-ported-for-android/
Android source is here: http://source.android.com/
Go ahead and make your own distribution, dozens of people already do. Cyanogenmod is probably the largest.
Other utilities you want that aren't there, but available in GNU? Port 'em. Source is there. Nothing is keeping it from happening.
? Really?
I run Gallery3 on a server for my family photos, and everyone including my grandma uploads pictures jsut fine. You navigate to the album you want, then click upload and select files. Then you can rotate them, etc. Quite frankly, it's as easy or easier than facebook. Definitely easier if Grandma makes a mistake and double-uploads or puts them in the wrong album. Since I own the site I can just move them as needed.
Are you kidding me? Sparks and Hangouts and Huddle, at least for me, ARE the reason to start using it. Hangouts are amazingly awesome for when my whole fmaily, some technically inept and some adept, all want to watch a live video cast of my daughter's first birthday without having to install a bunch of different programs (I've used Qik, youtube live stuff, justin.tv, others and they just don't work that well for technically inept people or technically adept people that don't want to install yet another plugin), or if I'm talking to my daughter in the evening while on travel, all the grandparent's aren't hopping on wanting some time too once they see my wife on ghcat. She can now just open a hangout, and the family can pop in and and say hi without interrupting whomever else was video chatting. I really see this being a drastic jump ahead in the basic set of capabilities that the most basic of computer users expect baked in.
From how it's been working so far, I can say that this feature alone will likely shift the whole family's social presence across into G+.
Along with what so far appears to be a mobile application that's light years ahead of facebook's. I'm pretty pumped.
It's the protocol that advertises printers to iOS over Wifi.
Basically, allow you to print to a printer hooked up to an Ubuntu PC from your iPod/iPhone/iPad.
Hmmmmm....if only you had access to the biggest search engine in the world's code base so that you could work around this issue. That would really solve the problem.
/tinfoil Maybe putting a + at the end makes it harder for other sites/people to aggregate and crawl the data? Maybe Google wants it that way.
Don't we have a crapload of unused base load power in this world which we could use for hydrogen production?
No.
err, leap year in the last sentence should be *leap second*
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Leap seconds is already included in the GPS stream. So, with the GPS stream you get GPS time, and UTC time. Most GPS receivers output GPS time until they've received the NAV or other message that has the leapseconds count in it, and then correctly updates to UTC time. It seems like a simple, solved problem. Am I missing something with respect to your leap year stuff?
Yea, I've flown about once a week for about 5 months now, and I've been through a scanner exactly once, and opted out for a frisk 3 times.
Most airports have them, and they're on, but just standing in the security line and observing what's going on you can reduce your risk of getting put through one pretty considerably.
I did get randomly picked by the metal detector for explosives testing though, and my luggage had explosive residue all over them. I just had my wife, whom had made it through, take all of my luggage and just leave my shoes because I was already late for the plane and didn't want a positive explosives test holding me up more.
I was pretty floored that I could stand there yelling at my wife through the plastic holding cell to take all of our luggage because I had explosive residue on mine while surrounded by TSA agents, and not one even blinked.
We have hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on these scanners and security, and having public outcry, and potentially giving people cancer, and in the end the TSA expects you to point kindly point out the baggage that you're carrying explosives in to them so that they can go find the explosives. Yea, can't think of anything that could go wrong there! Trust the terrorists to tell them where their bomb is via a simple question!